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Black Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- ..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there…
- I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have…
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead,…
- Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little…
- But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women…
- You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how…
- Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most…
- The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and…
- Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,”…
- When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light…
- This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the…
- Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa