“All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.” KindBlackComedyShareBalanceMelancholyBlack Comedy Author:Martin McDonagh
“I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.” EndsWantedActorsBlackShareSeriousMiseryMeant To BeBeard Author:Stephen Colbert
“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.” KnowsMayDoeRealLastsFacesBlackVoiceSecretLaughingHeardShareDrinkMessagesCharityStrangerNeighborCeaseDawnReal LoveSparesCommitteesComfortingFace To FaceOne FriendBlack Day Book:Living Alone Source: Living Alone
“Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.” IfsKnowsChildrenArtEarthBlackVoiceGraceShareEqualityIceMy ChildrenSmoothElusiveUnbrokenCondescendingBlack Ice Author:Lorene Cary
“Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.” MenPoliticalSocialSexBlackWhiteCommonRolesShareImportanceMalesSexismSensibilityWhite ManDominationStanceEnabling Author:Bell Hooks
“The wild black scavengers of the skies laid their eggs in season and lovingly fed their young. They soared high over prairies and mountains and plains, searching for the fulfillment of that share of life's destiny which was theirs according to the plan of Nature. Their philosophers demonstrated by unaided 15 Animals reason alone that the Supreme Cathartes aura regnans had created the world especially for buzzards. They worshipped him with hearty appetites for many centuries.” WorldReasonYoungBlackAnimalDestinyPlansSkyShareCenturyMountainSeasonsPhilosopherSupremeFulfillmentEggsFedsAppetiteAurasPrairieHeartyBuzzards Author:Walter M. Miller, Jr.