Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death. — Fairuza Balk Copy Share Image
If it makes you feel any better, you’re not as bad as Keith. He was here earlier today and was so nervous,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well… — John Blair Copy Share Image
She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I've been pulled over with four hoopers in the car before and we've all been taken out and searched because we were… — Bradley Beal Copy Share Image
Few people younger than me know that it was once normal to see fields white with mushrooms, or rivers black with eels… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They… — Meredith Ann Pierce Copy Share Image
That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to… — Mark Bradford Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
