"Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament."
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"Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black."
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"You carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. If you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure there is somewhere in you a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other."
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"What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed."
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"There were only two times in my life when I've actually felt down about things and gotten myself into a full mental mess. One of the times was in 1982. I had a horrible time for a few months and felt pretty desperate. Then again in 1984, for various reasons, not all of them within my control. Since then, I just wander in and out of black moods."
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"You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . ."
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"You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!"
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"The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers."
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"There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes."
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"The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work."
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"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."
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"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."
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"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
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"In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew."
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"The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass."
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"What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil. Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal?"
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"When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization."
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"The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it."
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"No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it."
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"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."
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