Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
But when I do book signings and personal appearances, the audiences are mostly white. Growing up here, I expected that and understand… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black… — Shola Lynch Copy Share Image
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and… — Thomston Copy Share Image
Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Even as a stage performer, I have my garb which is leather jackets and black jeans to make me feel a certain… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue. — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high… — Ayesha Curry Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
If you create networks that allow people in their own local systems to have power and agency and sovereignty in their own… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I… — Duane Jones Copy Share Image
Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
