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“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

Should Black Flower Horse Western Colour Sunset Why Not Funeral Fading

Book:Novels of Yen-Ching

Source: Novels of Yen-Ching

“Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows I Can Together Reading Language Grows Black Flower Limits Slavery Illegal Black People Stem Petals

Author:M. K. Asante

“I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.”

Black Sea Sky Color Flower Blue Substance Merit Minerals Tiles Turquoise Sapphires Cobalt

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“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

“The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered.”

Earth Grows Black Flower Black Women Unloved

Author:Kola Boof

“All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.”

Turns Black Change Flower Office All Things Instruments Contrary Melancholy Cheer Buried Funeral Bells Things Change Festivals Solemn Hymns Burial Sullen Our Wedding Bridal

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.”

Black White Sweet Flower Rose Driven Snow Crow Gloves Lawns Cyprus

Book:The Winter's Tale: Second Series

Source: The Winter's Tale: Second Series