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“Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.”

Black Broken Capacity Vessel Deprived

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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

“Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.”

Important Self Goal Black Simple White Results Broken Honor Projects Commitment Direct Profound Black And White Unfinished

Author:Gary Ryan

“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.”

People Knows Heart Sometimes Enough Bigs Happens Film Dies Black Situation Broken Type Losing Happenings Cancer Things Happen Violent Breasts Black People Like Something Breast Cancer

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.”

Men Self Individual Felt Black Hurt Church White Humility Broken Members Sick Critics Authenticity Supposed To Be Ran Hypocrisy Righteousness Hospitals Black And White Versus

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“about ten days ago I got started on a new book, and am completely, brazenly devoted to it: my hair is uncut, my letters are unwritten, the house is a shambles, and I sit here as happy as Mrs. Jellaby, though I am in 1836, not Africa. It won't go on like this, I shall fall over some obstacle, and wake out of my dreams with a black eye and broken shins: but while it does last, I daren't interrupt it. I haven't had such a spell of writing for nearly three years.”

Writing Years Doe Book Dream Eye Lasts Fall Three House Black Havens Hair Broken Goes On Ten Letters Obstacles Spells Three Years Devoted New Books Unwritten Black Eyes Shambles

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.”

Light Wanted Black Steps Support Broken Mass Window Casts Glasses Patterns Heavy Strikes Shade Roof Moonlight Lanes Pillars Spooky Rugged Lanterns

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.”

Writing Years Lasts Black Music Position Regret Broken Band Privilege Disappointment Performing Broken Up

Author:Rich Robinson

“I marvel at the many ways we, as black people, bend but do not break in order to survive. This astonishes me, and what excites me I write about. Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.”

People Way Writing Stories Order Black Wonder Break Broken Black People

Author:Kristin Hunter

“Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).”

Years Two Difficult Black Broken Ten Husband Shoes Accomplish Dirty Obsessed Pairs Your Husband Sneakers

Book:There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

Source: There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage