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“I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.”

“What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?”

Men Strong Stars Black Sun Sea Bird Track Black Women Jungle Eden Scarlet Copper Regal

Author:Countee Cullen

“So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.”

Mean Hands Earth Black Space Views Sun Letting Go Incredibles Shoulders Spectacular Just Let Go

Author:Rusty Schweickart

“Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.”

Black Sun Scientist Clinton Size Billions Holes Email Black Hole

Author:David Letterman

“My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.”

Together Black Sin Sun Spots Righteousness Comes And Goes Disk

Author:Charles Henry Parkhurst

“The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.”

Stills Moving Black Water White Sun Roots Wave Woods Holes Brown Sand Twisted Transparent Back Again Bluffs

Book:The Adventures of Augie March

Source: The Adventures of Augie March

“Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.”

People Firsts Stories Order Nations Social Black Sun West East Warmth Biographies Masterpiece Migration Iconic Social Science Reinvention North East

Author:David Levering Lewis

“Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.”

World Made Beautiful Guy Song Black Sun Strange Sitting Towns Extraordinary Radio Setting Settings Dust Beach Iron Latin Covered Gray Contrast Steel Port Brazil Tuning Escapists Iron Ore

Author:Terry Gilliam

“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”

Faces Black Nature Dark White Behinds Sun Fire Blood Changed Red Rivers Filled Winter Forests Ships Ruins Substance Yards Eastern Mist Marshes Masts Winter Days

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

Source: The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes

“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.”

Life Dream Black Sun Mass Hospitals

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“Heaven has its business and earth has its business: those are two separate things. Heaven, that's the angels' pasture; they are happy; they don't have to fret about food and drink. And you can be sure that they have black angels to do the heavy work like laundering the clouds or sweeping the rain and cleaning the sun after a storm, while the white angels sing like nightingales all day long or blow in those little trumpets like they show in the pictures we see in church.”

Littles Long Two Shows Earth Heaven Black Church White Sun Drink Angel Rain Prejudice Clouds Blow Heavy Storm Cleaning Trumpets Sweeping Pastures Nightingales Food And Drink

Author:Jacques Roumain

“We always need to have a smart black blazer in our closets. It's just a nice clean way to dress up even something as simple as jeans and a t-shirt. And something I always have in my closet, I always have a vintage headscarf with me, to tie around my bag or protect my hair from the sun, it depends but I always find a use for it.”

Way Needs Use Black Simple Sun Nice Hair Depends Protect Smart Dresses Clean Shirts Ties Bags Closets Jeans T Shirt Vintage Blazers

Author:Nicole Richie

“Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.”

Giving Children Stars Black Sun Tree Creation Birth Mountain All Things Fishes Holes Snow Galaxy Whales Black Hole Lava Microorganisms

Author:Matthew Fox