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“A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.”

Earth Black Bird Swans Black Swan

Author:Juvenal

“The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.”

Black Lows Bird West All Time Crow Nile All Time Low

Author:Jeff Chapman

“The black crow thinketh her own birds white.”

Black White Bird Crow

Author:Gavin Douglas

“KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about what they do the underdog, or in this case, the underchicken - So, if KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals?I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I-m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.”

“What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?”

Men Strong Stars Black Sun Sea Bird Track Black Women Jungle Eden Scarlet Copper Regal

Author:Countee Cullen

“Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.”

Writing Ideas Hands Stuff Black Bird Obvious Critical Chains Aggressive Frightening Bees Homosexual Underestimate Masculinity Leather Emily Blake Dizzy Visibility Baudelaire Spenser

Author:Camille Paglia

“A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'”

Said Play Guy Asks Black Bird Ask Me Frightening Larry Black Guys

Author:Magic Johnson

“The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.”

Eye Black White Silence Bird Mouths Red Shoulders Muscles Each Day Shock Silence Is Black Eyes White Birds

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!”

Life Wells Black Nature Education Teach Teacher Bears Bird Philosophical Frozen Nests Good Teacher Vulture

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.”

Source: All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life