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“There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.”

Enough Certain Fall Black Attention Serious Claims Illness Critical Holes Black Hole Unlucky Radius Solipsism Serious Illness

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.”

Men America Desire Literature Black Voice White Attention Alive Heard Media Objects Communication Activity Understood Rage Legislation Delivery

Author:June Jordan

“It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.”

Heart Littles Persons Earth Black Attention Flower Gold Dust Contempt Impatience Avarice Unreasonable Caress Merriment Transplants Domestic Life Gold Dust

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.”

Trying Remember Black Attention Lord Feet Six Female Tall Remember Me Describe Myself

Author:Maya Angelou

“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”

Want Mother Black Attention Audience Comedy Opposites Philosophical Incredibles Regions Rockets Continuation

Author:Mel Brooks

“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.”

“I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.”

Way Kind Black White Attention Draws Blue Shirts Ties Pale

Author:Charlie Siem

“I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.”

People Thinking Should Black Numbers Attention One Thing Pay Attention Black People Black Women All Black

Author:Bell Hooks