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“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“Whether the issue was black political power or nuclear power, Scott-Heron didn't mince words. His comeback record, "I'm New Here," doesn't mince words either, but instead of political battles, these songs suggest he's fighting personal ones.”

Political Song Fighting Black Issues Records Battle Nuclear Comeback Political Power Nuclear Power Herons

Author:Will Hermes

“Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”

Heaven Black Broken Wall Battle Thousand Moon Silent Midnight Purple Half Moon

Author:Joaquin Miller

“I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and past... I think there are some Southerners, black and white, who feel as though the rest of the country looks down on the South as uneducated and backward. And for some people, that was a symbol of defiance against that.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Country Past Causes Black White Deals Battle South Symbols Legacy Division Flags Black And White Defiance Hurtful Uneducated Confederate Southerner

Author:Russell D. Moore

“I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned, you're ugly. That really happens. This is something that started with slavery, when they divided the house, and it's still a part of today's society and things that we battle with.”

Ifs Looks Stills Light Happens Today Wanted House Black Dark Hair Battle Smart Skins Slavery Ugly Divided Being Smart Dark Skinned Good Hair Today's Society

Author:Rapsody

“Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.”

Faces Black Rooms Study Battle Soldier Drawing Dirty Disorder Vulgar Stains Housemaids

Book:Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

Source: Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual

“I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.”

Black Cutting Battle Weapons Teeth Raccoons

Book:Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)

Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)

“I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the most decisive and merciless manner and crush its resistance with such brutality that it will not forget it for decades to come. The greater the number of representatives of the reactionary clergy and reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in executing for this reason, the better.”

“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.”

People Way Seems Used Black Forget Leader Creativity Battle Black People Denied Literacy Illiteracy Conveying

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.”

Ends Black Streets Battle Beats Rose British East London Shirts Neighborhood March Beaten Cables Fascists East London

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Britons still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.”

Stills Song Black Streets Battle Pops London Shirts Britain Cables Pop Song

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.”

World Real Self Black White Battle Constant Messed Up Keeping It Real

Book:Black Is the New White

Source: Black Is the New White

“Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.”

People Men Mind Heart Happens Law Courses House Black Happened Perspective Battle Historian

Author:Isabel Allende

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said Allah God has come to fight the battle of justice for the Black man and woman of America and it is He who is plaguing America with the disasters of unusual rain, hail, snow, and soon earthquakes. So if the Black man and woman and the Native Americans, or Indians, are not in the equation of those running for the high office of the Presidency of the United States, if we are not in the equation for justice, then none of these candidates can save America from the Wrath of Allah (God).”

“We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.”

People War Whole Winning Black White Battle Structure Protest Black People Definite White Power

Author:Muhammad Ali

“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.”

“We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?”

Men Has Beens Fighting Left Black White Class Battle Labor Champion Ruling

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the braw warrior who won her heart. Oscar bade his beloved tae wait for him while he went tae seek his fortune. But one black day Malvina received word that her lover had been killed in battle. He would lie forever in eternal rest in the faraway hills…lost in endless slumber…” “God, I envy him,” St. Vincent said feelingly, rubbing his own dark-circled eyes.”

Heart Said Eye Lying Lost Waiting Black Dark Forever Lovers Battle Eternal Lows Fortune Envy Endless Warrior Hills Beloved Oscars Maids Slumber Wait For Him Black Day

Book:The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series

Source: The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series

“This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensuing to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of with start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.”

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.”

Trying Black Bears Terrible Battle Translations

Author:John Flanagan

“The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and... "And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation.”

Faces Black Dark Behinds Arms Cold Battle Bounds Rage Golden Sat Locks Handsome Clary Fray Capes Exasperation Eggplant

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.”

Kind Mean Littles Games Black Dog Battle Tea Strict Midnight Cigar Demeanor

Author:Gail Carriger

“No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them. They were different in so many ways, white and black, yellow and brown, skinny, short, tall, small, but they were all the same. Didn’t matter if they wore finger-bone necklaces, or baby teeth on bracelets, or tattoos on their chests to ward off bullets. In the end, they were all mangled with battle scars and their eyes were all dead.”

Source: The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series