“Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!” EndsShowsAgeSongBlackStageLetting GoGuitarShirtsNecksTerrifiedJeansT ShirtVansCoveringSabbathMicrophonesHorrificPedalsVan HalenBlack Sabbath Author:Phil Anselmo
“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish, spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty. We others, the demon rots us out.” AgeSexBlackDemonFiftyPriestsSpinstersBoyish Book:Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run Source: Rabbit is Rich: Rabbit Redux ; Rabbit, Run
“And you who sought for magic in your youth but desire it not in your age, know that there is a blindness of spirit which comes from age, more black than the blindness of eye, making a darkness about you across which nothing may be seen, or felt, or known, or in any way apprehended.” KnowsWayMayEyeAgeSpiritDesireFeltBlackKnownDarknessMagicYouthBlindness Author:Lord Dunsany
“I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.” TwoFactsAgeAmericaBlackThirtyBlack WomenMillionaire Author:Oprah Winfrey
“We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.” KnowsMindAgeUnderstandingBlackWhiteCenturyRedCoffeeBreadTargetApocalypseAbyssSpidersUnderworldDaily BreadConveyingSplintersOur Daily Bread Author:Brian Aldiss
“Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]” AgeBlackWingsRoundsOld AgePeaceful Author:Horace
“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.” ThinkingKnowsMenGivingFirstsMayMeanProblemAgePastBlackChangeLearningCenturyFilledHonestlyObedienceBigotryInferiorsTerrifiedSubmissionPreconceptionsUnlearn Author:Gloria Steinem
“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.” PeopleKnowsBelieveBookReasonAgeFormI BelieveBlackWealthRelationPropertyChemicalsDiamondCommodityCoalBlack Diamonds Book:Victory Source: Victory
“As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book.” IfsWantFeelsBookAgeBlackFeetSafeSticksNotesRapSentencesStrikesThese DaysGrandmotherDeniedFeel BetterSkirtsRebukeSafe PlacesNote Book Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.” AgeBlackCrimeHairGreedOld AgeMaturityGrayAvariceGray Hair Author:Mary Collyer
“When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.” KnowsYearsPlayMomentsAgeBlackCrazyRocksExampleBandMy FavoriteThat MomentMetalsNow And ThenRock MusicSabbathZeppelinsMetallicaBlack SabbathFavorite BandsSantana Author:Juanes
“The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.” AgeBlackModernMiddleCenturyRatsPlagueMiddle AgesModern LifeTouristsBlack Death Author:Richard Conniff
“I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.” LooksAgeFearWaitingBlackWhiteHairMirrorsAgingOld AgeParksCoffinsOld LadyBundlesWhite Hair Author:Paddy Chayefsky
“Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.” ChildrenAgeYoungMotherBlackResponsibilitySolitaryYoung AgePolygamy Author:Dacia Maraini
“I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe, and these kids know about all this obscure funk and soul that kids over here wouldn't know. I think it's getting better in the States, though, with the age of the Internet.” ThinkingKnowsSoulStatesKidsAgeBlackParticularInternetEuropeDeeperGet BetterObscureFunkBlack Music Author:Lenny Kravitz
“That's just like America. It's made up of lots of different people. We're all different colors, different ages, we do different jobs -- but it takes all of us black people, white people, brown people, men and women, young and old, working in the factories, working in the fields, working in offices, working in stores -- it takes a lot of different kinds of people to get the job done for America.” PeopleMenKindMadeDifferentDoneAgeJobsAmericaYoungBlackWhiteFieldsColorOfficeMen And WomenStoresBrownBlack PeopleFactoriesDifferent KindsDifferent PeoplesYoung And OldGet The Job DoneDifferent ColorsDifferent JobsDifferent Ages Author:Jesse Jackson
“There is no morality in the mushroom cloud. The black rain of nuclear ashes will fall alike on the just and the unjust. And then it will be too late to wish that we had done the real work of this atomic age, which is to seek a world that is neither red nor dead.” WorldRealDoneAgeFallWishBlackMoralityLateRedRainCloudsNuclearToo LateAshesUnjustMushroomsReal Work Author:Edward Kennedy