Black Quote by Laura Gentile

“The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“Eyes the color of forbidden forests gazed down upon her,”

— M.S. Willis

“The red priestess shuddered. Blood trickled down her thigh, black and smoking. The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing…

— George R.R. Martin

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

“Lying in a position of classic repose, Winnifred had never been more beautiful. Her silvery gold hair cascaded over the oaken door upon which…

— T.D. McKinney

“The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of…

— Frederick Douglass

“I was dancing with an immortal august woman, who had black lilies in her hair, and her dreamy gesture seemed laden with a wisdom…

— W.B. Yeats

“On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as…

— Meg Rosoff

“Long past sunset an old blind woman sat on a camp-stool with her back to the stone wall of the Union of London and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her mouth was a gash of red, like the torn-open stomach of a sacrifice, bloody and oracular. Behind it her teeth shone sharp and…

— Madeline Miller

“When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which…

— William Shakespeare

“turn to see a Gray woman my height, but built like a snub-nosed boxer with the physical dimensions of a concrete building block. Freckles,…

— Pierce Brown