Black Quotes
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I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors (Black Quotes)
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood (Black Quotes)
She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Feverish. And mean. like, sick as she is, if a snake cross her path, she kill it (Black Quotes)
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white (Black Quotes)
It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period (Black Quotes)
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans anymore than black people were made for white, or women created for men (Black Quotes)
This room is very powerful:Buddha, golden, holding down one side; the primordial Great Mother, black, offering her bead of mitochondria holding down the other (Black Quotes)
He molded himself next to me in my bed; he was dressed in black like some ‘summer' Ninja; black wife beater shirt; black jeans and ever so quiet and panther - like in his movements (Black Quotes)
On the church vaulting above was the clock face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it (Black Quotes)
She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend (Black Quotes)
When you become impeccable with your word, your mind is no longer fertile ground for words that come from black magic. Instead, it is fertile for the words that come from love (Black Quotes)
She didn't notice that she used black magic and put a spell on her daughter. She didn't know the power of her word, and therefore she isn't to blame (Black Quotes)
People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do (Black Quotes)
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds. This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me (Black Quotes)
And when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears (Black Quotes)
The table was a pool of candlelight - so bright that the rest of the room seemed almost black, with the faces of the family portraits floating in the darkness (Black Quotes)
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? (Black Quotes)
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests (Black Quotes)
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a black person and a white person loving each other in a racist society (Black Quotes)
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of black women for each other (Black Quotes)
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of black men (Black Quotes)
I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell (Black Quotes)
In discussions around the hiring and firing of black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that black women are more easily hired than are black men (Black Quotes)
For black women as well as black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others - for their use and to our detriment (Black Quotes)
Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals (Black Quotes)
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive (Black Quotes)
Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light (Black Quotes)
The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free (Black Quotes)
I cannot bear to look at his hands, they are like wax. Under the nails is the dirt of the trenches, it shows through blue black like poison (Black Quotes)
And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression (Black Quotes)