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Black Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative…
- Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black…
- A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,…
- I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't,…
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
- I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful…
- When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or…
- I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And…
- This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
- And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.
- I only know that a rook Ordering its black feathers can so shine As to seize me senses, haul My eyelids up, and grant A…
More Black Quotes
- 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