His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.
George R.R. MartinTags: fear black forest snow cloak a-song-of-ice-and-fire george-r-r-martin a-game-of-thrones ser-waymar-royce the-wall
I took my solo and beat hell out of the skins. Then Spoof swiped at his mouth and let go with a blast and moved it up into that squeal and stopped and started playing. It was all headwork. All new to us.
New to anybody.
I saw Sonny get a look on his face, and we sat still and listened while Spoof made love to that horn.
Now like a scream, now like a laugh - now we're swinging in the trees, now the white men are coming, now we're in the boat and chains are hanging from our ankles and we're rowing, rowing - Spoof, what is it? - now we're sawing wood and picking cotton and serving up those cool cool drinks to the Colonel in his chair - Well, blow, man! - now we're free, and we're struttin' down Lenox Avenue and State
Tags: black jazz african-american
I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn’t deserve white, and I was sick of black.
Karen Marie MoningTags: beauty black white pink grey
My African roots made me what I am today. They’re the reason I’m from the Dominican Republic. They’re the reason I exist at all. To these roots I owe everything.
Junot DíazTags: africa black caribbean republic latino dominican afro
I think in black.
Gareth PughLife starts from a white hole and ends in a black hole.
Santosh KalwarTags: life inspirational black end white hole start
...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)
Adam J. BanksTags: education black teaching rhetoric african digitalization composition dj
I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).
Brett Kiellerop-MorrisTags: black african-american european
What is it about humans that make us so prone to prejudice?”
Blue arches one of his unnaturally colored eyebrows and looks up to meet my gaze. “If we didn’t form prejudices, we wouldn’t be learning from our environment, you dolt. It’s an animal instinct. If a porcupine’s quill gets stuck in your hand once, you won’t be likely to go grabbing it again soon, right?
Me and my insatiable curiosity. If there's any justice in the world, I was a very good cat in a past life.
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