“I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon.” BlackMoonAfrican American Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California” HeartBlackWhiteMoonLonelyWinterForestsCaliforniaSolitaryNorthern CaliforniaWinter Moon Author:Joaquin Miller
“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.” HeavenBlackBrokenWallBattleThousandMoonSilentMidnightPurpleHalf Moon Author:Joaquin Miller
“The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.” MadeBeautifulBlackWonderImagineSkyMoonImpressionDesertExcitementContrastVividVibrancy Author:Charles Duke
“From the distance of the moon, Earth was four times the size of a full moon seen from Earth. It was a brilliant jewel in the black velvet sky.” EarthBlackFourSkyMoonDistanceSizeBrilliantJewelsVelvetFull Moon Author:Buzz Aldrin
“Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.” BlackStreetsConditionsMoonOppressionHillsRevolutionaryGhetto Author:Assata Shakur
“And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.” MayTwoFactsMightNightBlackWhiteSeaSkyWindMoonBlueCaughtRageCirclesBalletCentreNever ChangeGeometryRadiusCastaway Author:Yann Martel
“I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.” BeautifulBlackWhiteLove IsMoonPaperPeterBlack And WhitePierceMildredMildred Pierce Author:Suzan-Lori Parks
“The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.” FirstsAbleOrderBlackWhiteColorTvsMoonGreat ThingsGrandmotherBlack And WhiteMy GrandmotherLandingMoon Landing Author:Alfonso Cuaron
“Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon” BlackSkyMoonWindowGoldenHoneyBowlsMellow Book:Poems and problems Source: Poems and problems