1,474 Quotes About Black

  • Author Robert Graves
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    Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,and stain me with the intensity of black.

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  • Author Roberto Bolano
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    I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I really consider myself to be in a foreign country when I could go walking back to my own country right now if I wanted, and it wouldn't even take very long? Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

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  • Author Odilon Redon
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    One must respect black, nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye and it awakens no sensuality. It is the agent of the mind far more than the most beautiful color to the palette or prism

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