Black Quote by Edward G. Robinson

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some…

— Dwight Yoakam

Now your lungs are as black as your soul.

— Anonymous

It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because…

— Richard Grimes

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

— John Green

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.

— Anne Sexton

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

— Augusten Burroughs

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

— Graham Greene

When my mother told me they have to sell me, I couldn't breathe; I couldn't speak.

— Sonita Alizadeh

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually…

— Edward Gorey

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

— Benjamin Carson

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

— Aimee Bender

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a…

— Michaela Coel