Black Crow Quotes

#1. At the bottom of every dilemma, he says, is fear, and the brain always prefers the bird in the hand to venturing into the bush, even if you are clutching a scrawny black crow.

Barbara Bradley Hagerty

#2. The black crow thinketh her own birds white.

Gavin Douglas

#3. This snowy morning
That black crow I hate so much ...
But he's so beautiful!

Matsuo Basho

#4. No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.

Idries Shah

#5. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

Ezola B. Foster

#7. I want to be a guileless rook to discolor the blackness of all crafty human hearts

Munia Khan

#8. Is that a crow I hear, calling the raven black?

George R R Martin

#9. A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. When nine-and-ninety hostages had shuffled by them to pass beneath the Wall, Tormund Giantsbane produced the last one. My son Dryn. You'll see he's well taken care of, crow, or I'll cook your black liver up and eat it.

George R R Martin

#11. Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

Pauli Murray

#12. The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#13. To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying

Ted Hughes

#14. The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

William Blake

#15. The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

Jim Webb

#16. If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

William James

#17. Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

William Shakespeare

#18. Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born.

Michelle Alexander

#19. The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.

Jeff Chapman

#20. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it. I

Michelle Alexander

#21. Black is beautiful .Black isn't power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don't know and you ain't got no dough, you can't go and that's for sho'.

Lewis H. Michaux

#22. Tabby warrior looked like a baby crow with a black frill

Erin Hunter

#23. And the crow once called the raven black.

George R R Martin

#24. The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood.

George R R Martin

#25. So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice? Because we don't hear our president talking about the new Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex.

Cornel West

#26. In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

William James

#27. Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

Laozi

#28. Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that's a fact.

E.W. Jackson

#29. The crow calls the raven black.

George R R Martin

#30. The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

#31. I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

Rita Dove