Black Water Quotes
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That Loor’s a handful, she is. - Spader (Black Water) (Black Water Quotes)
...water laughing softly down a black stone wall. (Black Water Quotes)
Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet (Black Water Quotes)
I’m comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. (Black Water Quotes)
Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you’ll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink. (Black Water Quotes)
When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they’ve lost their grip (Black Water Quotes)
I swim all the time at night - I’ve always been a water girl. It’s a black-bottom pool and my pool light was out, and as I’ve done a thousand times I just kind of did a little seal dive. I saw a huge bright light and I literally thought, ‘That’s it.’ (Black Water Quotes)
Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked ‘Colored.’ When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony. (Black Water Quotes)
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. (Black Water Quotes)
Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It’s a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you’ll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. (Black Water Quotes)
Then the coxswain called out, ‘Ready all!’ Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness. (Black Water Quotes)
Old black water, keep on rollin’ Mississippi moon won’t you keep on shinin’ on me? (Black Water Quotes)
I got a tattoo saying, ‘Freedom From Fear’ because of ‘Black Water Transit.’ (Black Water Quotes)
During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature. (Black Water Quotes)
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem’s meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth (Black Water Quotes)
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth (Black Water Quotes)
It’s a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched (Black Water Quotes)
I’ve always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel ‘Black Water,’ I provide a voice for someone who has died and can’t speak for herself (Black Water Quotes)
It doesn’t matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can’t understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. and who in his mind has not probed the black water? (Black Water Quotes)
Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west (Black Water Quotes)
The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black (Black Water Quotes)
When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping (Black Water Quotes)
I got a tattoo saying, ‘Freedom From Fear’ because of ‘Black Water Transit (Black Water Quotes)
I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn't touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn't drown (Black Water Quotes)
Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives (Black Water Quotes)