“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.” KnowsLongStillsEyeBeautifulRememberFacesFormNightGirlBlackSleepFiguresWindHairQuietStandingCornersCellsMoonlightSpookyStreamingStanding StillBlack HairLong Black Hair Book:The Pickwick Papers Source: The Pickwick Papers
“In real life, you can't get a job as an executive unless you have the educational background and the opportunity. Now the fact that you are not an executive is merely because of the social standing of life... Black people have a hard time getting anywhere. And those that do, are usually straight. In a ballroom, you can be anything you want.” PeopleWantRealHardFactsJobsOpportunitySocialBlackStandingEducationalReal LifeBackgroundsHard TimesExecutivesBlack PeopleBallroomEducational Background Author:Dorian Corey
“Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.” HomeAmericaBlackStandingGoldSlaverySeedsIvory Book:Collected Prose Source: Collected Prose