We go hard in the ink!

“Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.”

— Brandi L. Bates

“Mirnin: Where's Shreve?”

— Rachel Caine

“If she’d ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love…

— Rachel Caine

“Who's your daddy?' Myrnin stared at him as if he'd gone completely mental. ' Excuse me? ”

— Rachel Caine

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

— Karl Lagerfeld

As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on…

— Naturi Naughton

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool…

— Chi McBride

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

— Mike Tyson

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final…

— Frank B. Wilderson III

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

— Colin Marston

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

— Thomas Sowell

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want…

— Miley Cyrus

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward