“The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).” Has BeensEarthNightBlackRainGratefulCleanTeaSilverLunchAfternoonRestlessStarlight Book:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic
“... when your name is really and truly Percy Blakeney, pronounced 'Black-knee', and you still have bad acne in your twenties, you accept Pimple as a nickname and are grateful that it wasn't anything worse.” StillsNamesBlackAcceptingTwentiesGratefulKneesNicknamesPimplesAcne Author:Terry Pratchett
“One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.” PeopleWorldBlackGratefulJazzBlack People Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Housing in New York seemed to fit Norman Lear. In addition, his shows confronted all kinds of social issues - racial separation and prejudice being foremost among them. The Evans of Good Times were the first black family to be the focus of a primetime American TV show. A lot of the people we came across in filming were familiar with the role Norman played in catalyzing important national conversations about race. They seemed grateful to him for trying to move the needle.” PeopleTryingKindImportantMovingBlackFocusFitPrejudiceGratefulSeparationFamiliarAll KindsGood TimesSocial IssuesLearBlack Family Author:Solly Granatstein
“I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that we should spend our law enforcement time jailing or imprisoning marijuana users. But to solve that problem, you don't need to go to the other extreme of creating Big Tobacco 2.0. Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again.” ThinkingMenProblemBlackMistakeGratefulSmokingMarijuanaUsersLaw EnforcementTobaccoPhilipMorris Author:Kevin Sabet
“As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.” ShouldMadeBlackMonthsAchievementGratefulInspiredCelebrateLegacyBe GratefulBlack HistoryHymnsBlack History MonthCelebrate Life Author:Marty Meehan
“Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally Id see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I'd realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That someday I WOULD be grateful and that in fact I was grateful now, that I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.” WayRealFactsWould BeMotherNightStrongStarsFeltBlackRealizingGrowingSkyGratefulSomedayCompanionBe GratefulStunningPiercingsSolemnityBright Star Author:Cheryl Strayed
“I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back — and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!” PeopleIfsThinkingMenYearsLongStillsI CanSeemsTurnsBlackWhiteFourRightsFeetOughtSixHundredGratefulHearingCivil RightsSupposed To BeKnivesScarInchesBe GratefulWhite ManShoutingHallelujah Author:Malcolm X
“I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.” WellsMomentsFilmBlackHoursWhiteHalfGratefulFishesTeaCombinationExtrasBlack And WhiteSandwichesVintageNoirQuirkyHalf HoursOlivesTowelsI Am GratefulMartiniTunaSippingFilm NoirTuna Fish Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach
“I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.” PeopleKnowsLifeMeanUsedMotherBlackIntellectualIntelligentGratefulWitEducatedRelyOld PeopleWombMother Wit Author:Maya Angelou