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tall gray-faced black woman in her thirties — Russell Banks

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal. — Bernie Mac

When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black. — Charlotte Bronte

I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general. — Naomi Campbell

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for. — Holly Black

The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray. — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

The American police had shot another child for being black and outside, and the child had died, there on the pavement in the company of his killers. — Sarah Moss

The true sea is cold and black, full of animals... — Jean-Paul Sartre

You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,"
"For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife, — Grace Draven

Some people have the Midas touch, other's dip their fingers in sticky, permanent black ink, Smudged. Unlucky. — Amy Matayo

a black granite cube containing only the character mu — Patti Smith

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail. — Meghan O'Rourke

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes

Don't look at things as if they're black or white. You don't have to be "perfectly on plan" or "completely off". — Nia Shanks

The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really? — Lewis Black

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected. — Adepero Oduye

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. — Geezer Butler

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies. — Whoopi Goldberg

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war — Robert Black

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows. — Megan Hart

I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great? — Jourdan Dunn

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music. — Rebecca West

For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice. — Kim Raver

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this. — Jandy Nelson

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. — Max Black

Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out. — Lewis Black

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to. — Holly Black

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres. — Miguel

His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin. — Neil Gaiman

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight - a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. — Stephenie Meyer

The difference between black and white is grace, not gray. — Evinda Lepins

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. — Nelson Mandela

I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback. — Misty Copeland

STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Love is like the piano there are black and white and must play both for a beautiful melody. — Khaled Naili

Finally, the complexities of black relationships are being portrayed in television and film. — Lisa Nicole Carson

Why do you always wear black?"
She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy. — Barbara Vine

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded. — Kate Mosse

It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid. — Cilla Black

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. — James Dyson

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice, — Illmaculate

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death. — Fairuza Balk

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B.B. King

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb. — Sue Grafton

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. — Dov Davidoff

House Music isn't black or white.
It just is.
It feels good & it feels right. — Frankie Knuckles

It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes. — Demetri Martin

You got a child to feed and a life to get on with. — Angela Flournoy

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple. — Paul Ince

Work with Evangeline Black? I'd rather be slit open from navel to nose." -CORBIN BLUE
"Good thing I always carry a knife." -EVIE BLACK — Gena Showalter

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only. — Henry Louis Gates

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be? — Peter Jackson

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold. — Amanda Hocking

No matter where you go in the world, a German will have beaten you there, clad in a sweaty black T-shirt and a smug expression. — Claire Dederer

Every night, in every Coldtown, people die. People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death. — Holly Black

Jack Black is so funny! On and off screen, like, he would make you laugh every day. He's hilarious. — Caitlin Hale

This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others. — Werley Nortreus

If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?' — Kara Walker

I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city. — Michael Nutter

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover. — Dave Barry

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. — Stephen Carter

Most stick people are black. — Demetri Martin

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying. — Cool Papa Bell

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. — Miriam Makeba

He seemed so cold. Like a shadow caused by heat and light falling on someone honorable and true, casting this black imitation behind. — Brandon Sanderson

I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... — John Geddes

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. — Holly Black

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real. — Martin Parr

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. — Dorothy Parker

I need a lot of black on my eyes and a little shot of vodka to be brave, because you're beautiful when you relax. — Carine Roitfeld

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. — Alan Parker

We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A family without a black sheep is not a typical family. — Heinrich Boll

You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you. — Monica Millner

The main difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn't think he was a fighter pilot. — Evan Currie

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me. — Jodi Picoult

And now, in the season of the Radical Chic, the Black Panthers. — Tom Wolfe

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag. — Rachel Zoe

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives ... — Nikki Giovanni

A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever. — Baz Black

[ ... ] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [ ... ] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did. — Michael Nutter

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way. — Charlie Siem

I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story. — Euzhan Palcy

Black, like white, is the best color! — Karl Lagerfeld

You Just scared me half to death," I said.
"You should be thrilled you're halfway there. — Rae Hachton

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions. — Anne Sexton

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde

But reality television is here to stay. — Cilla Black

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. — Richard E. Byrd

That was Chas. Furious and black-hearted one minute, ready to crack a wry joke the next. — Colleen Gleason

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity. — Jackson Katz

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives. — Solange Knowles

Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself. — Robert Black