“Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.” TwoFeelingsNightHouseFeltBlackCasesBearsStonesHuntersExhilarationVermontBrotherly Author:Edward Hoagland
“South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner” MenBlackWhiteStonesSouthKicksSouth AfricaWhite ManStatuesForeignersSlap Author:Robert Mugabe
“I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.” PeopleBlackViewsStonesBlack PeopleHuts Author:Trisha Goddard
“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.” YearsTwoFightingThreeBlackMy OwnPeriodsStonesMessGrayThree Years Author:Lee Krasner
“Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .” PeopleStillsBookBigsCareNamesLanguageBlackWallStonesBoardsSpokesPeculiarWelshChapelBlack Books Author:R. S. Thomas
“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.” ThinkingWayStillsShowsLastsBeautifulDeathBlackNumbersHalfWonderfulSorrowQuietStonesHorseDressesGrassMidstFalsehoodSculptureFeathersSpoilCathedralsCredibleEpitaphAmiableVaults Book:Works Source: Works
“I like The Beatles and I like The Kinks and I like The Rolling Stones and I like Led Zeppelin and I like Black Sabbath.” BlackStonesRollingSabbathRolling StonesZeppelinsKinkBlack Sabbath Author:Rachel Trachtenburg
“The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.” HeartSoundBlackStonesMirrorsCricketHush Book:New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
“The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.” MenMightLostStrongBlackWhiteVirtueFoolStonesWeakStealingCrushGreySageDepravedLimes Book:Anthem Source: Anthem
“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.” KindStillsDifferentHardFoundBlackWhiteQualitySawsCuttingRedStonesWoodsMediumsInstanceLavaQuarryUmbriaRed And Black Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.” Has BeensStillsSoulUseForceBlackMagicStonesBreadBlack MagicSoul Force Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings
“I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.” KnowsWayKidsCultureBlackStonesJazzSlyBlack Culture Author:Robert Greene
“I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.” MenBlackDarkWhiteStonesPaintI RealizedCaves Author:Pierre Soulages
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.” NeedsIdeasMovingGuyNextBlackLevelsGrowingMovementColdBecomingStonesDrinkingErasBeerWrestlingBad GuysShiftingMomentumBeardNext LevelBeer DrinkingStone Cold Author:Hulk Hogan