Quotations About / On: BLACK

  • 41.
    The fact that white people readily and proudly call themselves "white," glorify all that is white, and whitewash all that is glorified, becomes unnatural and bigoted in its intent only when these same whites deny persons of African heritage who are Black the natural and inalienable right to readily—proudly—call themselves "black," glorify all that is black, and blackwash all that is glorified.
    (Abbey Lincoln (b. 1930), U.S. singer. "Who Will Revere the Black Woman?" Negro Digest (Sept. 1966).)
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  • 42.
    It will help me nothing
    To plead mine innocence, for that dye is on me
    Which makes my whit'st part black.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Buckingham, in Henry VIII, act 1, sc. 1, l. 207-9. On being arrested as a traitor; "nothing" = not at all.)
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  • 43.
    In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.
    (Maya Angelou (b. 1928), African American poet, autobiographer, and performer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, ch. 4 (1970). Remembering her childhood in strictly segregated, harshly racist Stamps, Arkansas, during the 1930s.)
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  • 44.
    The awaited scream rises,
    the shattering
    of glass and the cracking
    of bone
    a polar tumult as when
    black ice booms....
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "During the Eichmann Trial.")
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  • 45.
    Little adulteress,
    before they punished you

    you were flaxen-haired,
    undernourished, and your
    tar-black face was beautiful.
    (Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Punishment (l. 23-27). . . Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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  • 46.
    Went drearily singing the chore-girl small,
    Draping each hive with a shred of black.
    (John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), U.S. poet. Telling the Bees (l. 39-40). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 47.
    Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
    (William Burroughs (b. 1914), U.S. author. The Western Lands, ch. 3 (1987).)
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  • 48.
    Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
    Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Street Lamps.")
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  • 49.
    that part of him that was left behind convulsed in undignified
    haste,
    Writhed like lightning, and was gone
    Into the black hole, the earth-lipped fissure in the wall-front,
    (D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British poet. Snake (l. 59-61). . . The Complete Poems [D. H. Lawrence]. Vivian de Sola Pinto and Warren Roberts, eds. (1993) Penguin Books.)
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  • 50.
    I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.
    (D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, June 2, 1915. The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 2, eds. George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton (1981).)
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