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“I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.”

Knows Way Firsts Dream Black Know How First Time Clean Grandmother Nightmare Pot Recipes Dreams Come True Cuba Ceilings Beans Cuban Dripping Great Grandmother

Author:Danny Pino

“From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome”

Dream Black White Tone Black And White Monochrome

Author:Shing02

“War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.”

War Dream Light Grows Peace Black Mankind Thousand Fabric Curtains Here And There Dense Gleam Kindliness

Book:H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!”

Dream Would Be Young Black Dresses Length Brando

Author:Rebecca Hall

“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.”

Source: American Gods

“Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.”

Knows Dream Song Black Fantasy Tree Red Gold Empires Do You Know Ribbons Bismarck

Author:Theodor Herzl

“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.”

“Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way”

Way Mind Dream Black Space Wall Died Take Me

Author:John Frusciante

“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”

Country Whole Dream Night Black Sea Gold Bars Handle Smoke Riding Bicycle Drifting Swans Holland Canals Gilded

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“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

“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”

People Knows Writing Trying Kind May Use Dream Speak Language Sound Black Ability Race Taken Pieces Ten Tradition Twenties Tongue Black People Multiplicity Speaking In Tongues

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.”

People Dream Black White Speech Letters Revelations Jail Birmingham I Have A Dream Speech

Author:Andrew Young

“Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.”

World Giving Dream Black White Conditions Unconscious Black And White Parallels

Author:John Boorman

“My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'”

Play Dream Would Be Black Sarcastic Romney Maids

Author:Natasha Leggero

“Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.”

Men Giving Children Dream Seems Black Fit Worthwhile Wet Dreams

Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.”

Life Dream Black Sun Mass Hospitals

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.”

Thinking Dream Black White Conditions Strange Appeals Links Black And White Subconscious Otherness

Author:John Boorman

“Where weary folk toil, black with smoke, And hear but whistles scream, I went, all fresh from dawn and dew To carry them a dream. I went to bitter lanes and dark, Who once had known the sky, To carry them a dream-and found They had more dreams than I.”

Dream Found Black Dark Known Sky Folks Bitter Smoke Dawn Bitterness Scream Weary Toil Dew Lanes

Author:Mary Carolyn Davies

“One night I had a dream, and in that dream a big black man appeared to me and told me what to mix up for my hair. I made up my mind I would begin to sell it.”

Men Mind Made Dream Bigs Night Black Hair Sells One Night I Had A Dream

Author:Madam C. J. Walker

“Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.”

Facts Use Dream Black Honest Red Wake Up Corners Panic Bedroom Spiders

Author:Tippi Hedren

“The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.”

Thinking World Dream Used Black Powerful Magic Land Youth Skills India Digital Snakes Black Magic Charmers Digital India

Author:Narendra Modi

“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.”

World Writing Trying Littles Dream Reality Black My Own White Reader Understood Absolutes Mirrors Complexes Casts Honestly Hopefully Black And White Dream World Ambivalent

Author:Andre Dubus

“I remember I had this recurring dream that we were playing a night game and instead of eye black we had mashed up the glowing bodies of fireflies and put that under our eyes. So our faces were glowing - a kind of night vision.”

Kind Dream Body Eye Remember Faces Night Games Black Vision Glowing Recurring Firefly Night Vision Recurring Dreams

Author:Ben Lerner