“My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.” IfsChildrenSoulLightMotherBlackWhiteAngelMy SoulSouthernBores Author:William Blake
“I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.” LittlesPastUsedHeavenStarsBlackDoubtCarFiguresLoversAngelRiversBoatMy PastMy LoverRadioheadRow Boats Author:Thom Yorke
“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.” LittlesLongTwoShowsEarthHeavenBlackChurchWhiteSunDrinkAngelRainPrejudiceCloudsBlowHeavyStormCleaningTrumpetsSweepingPasturesNightingalesFood And Drink Author:Jacques Roumain
“O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!” HeartArtSoulStatesHelpingBlackBornStruggleAngelKneesEngagedStringsRepentanceBowsSteelStubbornWretchedBosomsBabe Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition
“If 'The Wild One' were filmed today, Marlon Brando and the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club would all have to wear helmets. I used to be afraid that when (Hells) Angels became movie stars and Cal the hero of the book, the bikerider would perish on the coffee tables of America. But now I think that this attention doesn't have the strength of reality of the people it aspires to know, and that as long as Harley-Davidsons are manufactured other bikeriders will appear, riding unknown and beautiful through Chicago, into the streets of Cicero.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsLongBookRealityTodayAmericaBeautifulUsedStarsBlackAttentionHellStreetsHeroAngelTablesClubsCoffeeUsed To BeChicagoRebelRidingAspireMovie StarMotorcycleHelmetBrandoHarleyHarley DavidsonHells AngelsWild One Author:Danny Lyon
“Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!” MenSaidBlackSawsIgnoranceMastersAngelIgnorantMarble Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan