Black Quote by Ann Demeulemeester

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a…

— Ann Demeulemeester

“Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a…

— Ann Demeulemeester

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

— Countee Cullen

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

— Nikki Giovanni

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

— Countee Cullen

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

— Anne Sexton

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

— Carl Sandburg

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

— Coco Chanel

“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If…

— Gwyneth Lewis

I did not know that 'poetess' was an insult, and that I myself would some day be called one. I did not know that…

— Margaret Atwood

“The Old Man, like the French, believed that black was the only appropriate color to display and wear in order to show grief. I…

— Monique Truong