Black Quote by David James Duncan

“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.” quote by David James Duncan — Download Open image

“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.”

David James Duncan

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Black Curiosity Curves Ends Granted Hats Long Mark Periods Question mark Realizing Taken Taken for granted Wonder

More by David James Duncan

“Because I wasn’t anything anymore. Not anythingI love or know or care about. Because thou shalt not kill, Kade. Thou shalt not kill. With all my heart I believed this. And I killed. So what am I now? And why should I live? How am I even alive? Because if this is what our lives are--if doing this to others…

David James Duncan

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes…

David James Duncan

“It was so good to see him in there, yet so funny to find him so much like me, and so tiny. "Nice kingdom you got here," I added, laughing again. "But it didn't feel quite right without you. Or should I say, without me?" This time he laughed too, and though there were no bubbles or sound I could…

David James Duncan

“Bobby Edson, like most coaches, was a kind of mystic: he believed the cosmos was endowed with an ineffable muffling system that rendered all…

David James Duncan

Image

--I truly and deeply wanted to kill him. And I believe I could have done it, with nothing but my hands. But all of…

David James Duncan

Image

“Papa was no longer fixing a carburetor: he was setting up a greasy little Cuban missile base smack-dab in the middle of Mama’s immaculate…

David James Duncan

Image

“The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic's great rhetorical advantage in just ten words: There is no truth which stupidity can't make…

David James Duncan

Image

“Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?”

David James Duncan

Image

“Peter didn’t want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.”

David James Duncan

Image

“It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.”

David James Duncan

Image

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

David James Duncan

Image

“I’m just saying that his card-burning would have meant far more, on the day he did it, if he hadn’t already incinerated his life.”

David James Duncan

Image

Explore all 85 David James Duncan quotes

More Black quotes

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

Jesmyn Ward

Image

When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want…

Miley Cyrus

Image

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…

Thomas Sowell

Image

When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

Alexander Gordon Smith

The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and…

Colin Marston

Image

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

Maureen Duffy

Image

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he…

Fannie Lou Hamer

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,…

Gore Vidal

Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they…

Frank B. Wilderson III

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Mike Tyson

Image

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

R. Scott Bakker

Image

Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black…

John Boyega

Browse all 10,926 Black quotes

Black Quote by David James Duncan

Related quotes

More by David James Duncan

More Black quotes