"I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own."
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"Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound."
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"As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall."
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"I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!"
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"We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It's no longer about colour, but the person in the skin."
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"Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour."
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"I ought to file charges of uncommon stupidity against you for letting her try this alone." ~ Newt, Black Magic Sanction, Kim Harrison"
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"There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs."
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"I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be. You’re scared of black magic. I can see fear shimmering under your aura like sweat. I live and breathe black magic. I’m so tainted with it that I will use it without thought, without guilt and without hesitation."
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"Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)"
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"The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter."
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"Dave and Tate were dressed with equal heinousness. More black leather, chains, and whips. Either Don’s staff truly had costumes for all possible occasions on hand, or someone at wardrobe had a lot of explaining to do."
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"I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "No, I'm a conservationist who happens to be black.""
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"Sooner or later a black car came for everyone."
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"had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them. Those roles and stories are out there. But unless you have the money to finance movies on your own, you're beholden to others, and that is a very big limiting factor."
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"I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress."
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"It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas."
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"Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it."
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"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?"
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"Religion is a fascinating black hole to me."
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