The night is black, as black as night.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

— Langston Hughes

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not…

— Denzel Washington

By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have…

— Phil Patton

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

— Robert Burns

“The night was as black as the inside of a cat.”

— Terry Pratchett

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies

— Robert W. Chambers

“All night, the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed his heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”

— Robert W. Chambers

God can see a black ant walk on a black stone in a black night

— Arab Proverb

“The surrounding black night air rushed by me as my eyes began to adjust to the darkness and recognize shapes in the black on…

— Peter Jenkins

“Inside her mind was the deep black of the night sky. No stars, no moons or planets, just an infinite darkness from well before…

— Joseph Fink

“Because I see A rainstorm in June Just before the sun The black of night Just before the stars And, girl, I see your…

— Laura Miller

Black as night, sweet as sin.

— Neil Gaiman