“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.” FeelsHeartDoeEndsPainSufferingDiesCausesBlackGriefCompassionGraceSadnessGoldAnd LoveRemainsIntenseLayersPearlsCoinsResignationKernelBlack Pearl Author:Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.” WantWritingBookNamesGoalBlackWhiteDealsSecretTruth IsPoliceRemainsSymbolsLegacyHistorianLegendsBlack And WhiteSolidarityIconsSecret Police Author:Slawomir Cenckiewicz
“There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.” IfsKindDifferentFactsKidsSchoolLastsSexBlackLevelsGrowing UpGrowingYouthRemainsFatsWorriedDifferent LevelsFat Kid Author:John Amaechi
“I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.” ThinkingKindStillsSportsBlackStruggleRemainsInvestmentMetaphorAthletePsychologicalTriumphFlagsFlair Author:George Elliott Clarke
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” WayInspirationalSelfBlackGrowthChangeLeadershipInspiringPovertyTravelDiscoveryRemainsPersonal GrowthSelf DiscoveryFulfillmentSouth AfricaNot Giving UpThings ChangeKnow YourselfAlteredApartheidEulogySelf ActualizationChange YourselfDiscovering YourselfLong Walk To FreedomDiscovering SelfVacation TimeBest VacationDiscovering The WorldSelf Change Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.” PeopleThinkingMindHeartPersonsEvilBlackWhiteLogicMirrorsRemainsWesternNotionEducationalIdeologyRacistBlack PeopleInvitesMetaphysicalClosingEmbodimentMisguidedDualismBinaryBlack Person Author:Bell Hooks
“There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.” SoulArtistEnergyBlackSuccessfulWindowRemainsRageHorribleSmokeVainOutletsFartSuccessful Artists Book:Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.” MayBlackOne ThingFashionMonthsSixRemainsSix Months Author:Paulo Coelho
“Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.” IfsHandsGovernmentForceBlackWhitePowerfulQualityRemainsBrownYellowLiberatingBlack White Author:Margaret Thatcher