"When, like an Emir of tyrannic power, Sirius appears, and on the horizon black Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track."
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"Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish."
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"I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out."
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"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
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"Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon"
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"Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence."
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"In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus."
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"I love black dresses. I think everyone should own a lot, but black dresses don't sell online because on the computer they don't read like anything."
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"It aint about black or white cause we`re human"
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"Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever."
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"I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger."
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"Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing."
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"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."
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"I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture."
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"I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black."
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"All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black."
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"Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes."
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"You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead."
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"I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody."
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"thus, in a sense, we are all doomed. even if we stay away from black holes"
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