#black

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet. ↗

— Brad Holland

#both #careers #painting #picasso #probably

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#clearly #gone #knows #leadership #men

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #box #choosing #intellectual #label

When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by Western universities. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#black #i #least #none #philosophers

I have a lot of looks but right now I'm really into grunge. Messy hair, black heels. I get Michelle Pfeiffer with it. ↗

— Chloe Moretz

#get #grunge #hair #heels #i

to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poem #poetry #life

They were opposite in so many ways, but it was the kind of difference that was balancing-her softness with his steel, his instinct and her logic. He was teaching her by example to have courage in the face of fear, and she badly wanted to help him give voice to his grief and understand it was all right to feel pain. ↗

— Melissa Cutler

#contemporary #romance #suspense #courage

The first black president will be a politician who is black. ↗

— Doug Wilder

#first #politician #president #who #will

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. ("Speak To Me Of Death") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#devils #fear #horror #scars #age