Black Rage Quotes

#1. Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems,

Ron Paul

#2. When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius' 'The Meditations,' that changes your life.

Nic Pizzolatto

#3. There's only one that is a little stronger than me: Messi. All the others are behind me.

Mario Balotelli

#4. The Hittites believed that evil spirits lurked around every corner and sought to pollute the living spiritually and physically, and that death carried the greatest risk of pollution to those who touched the corpse

Charles River Editors

#5. Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.

Frank Beddor

#6. Before, I was paralyzed, though I didn't really know it," he said. "It was because I thought too much, lived too much in the mind. It was hard to make decisions. I felt immobilized.

Donna Tartt

#7. An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

James A. Baldwin

#8. And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh
not a trace of rage on behalf of black people, not a trace of rage on behalf of me.

Anne Lamott

#9. In the gray world above, I hear myself howling with laughter. Far below me, in the psychic abyss that is part of the Darkness, I hear another howling, one full of joy and pain, rage and celebration.
Not just another witch is coming, my foolish Sisters, but Witch.

Anne Bishop

#10. New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames.

Brad Holland

#11. She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself - literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self - shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit - leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#12. ...I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative.

David Byrne

#13. Leaning in, he kisses her on the cheek. Like an old acquaintance, she thinks. As though there had never been any passion, nor love, nor rage, nor anything much, just some traces of innocuous familiarity between them. Live long enough, it seems, and every fire can burn itself out.

Robin Black

#14. He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage.

Adam Nevill

#15. People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

Spike Lee

#16. I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

Najib Mikati

#17. I am not good. Something in Faith's head broke free, beating black wings into the sky. Nobody good could feel what I feel. I am wicked and deceitful and full of rage. I cannot be saved. She did not feel hot or helpless any more. She felt the way snakes looked when they moved.

Frances Hardinge

#18. There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

Eminem

#19. Rage filled me at her words - cold, black, unending rage. Whatever happened to me, Mab would not hurt my sister again. She would not.

Jennifer Estep

#20. What place is this that is my world; what dark coil has my spirit embodied?" he whispered the angry disclaimer that had always been a part of him. "In light, I see my skin as black; in darkness, it glows white in the heat of this rage I cannot dismiss.

R.A. Salvatore

#21. Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

Christian Moueix

#22. I'm just happy to be doing what I always wanted to do. Sometimes you have to remind yourself how privileged you are.

Colin Morgan

#23. Are you rage, wrapped in skin, tight like leather dried in the desert sun?
From: "The Comfort of Black

Carter Wilson

#24. Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.

Charles Hamilton Houston

#25. To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

James A. Baldwin

#26. These were people like that. The ones that cared so terribly much - enough to risk everything, enough to change and do things. Most people aren't like that, you know. It isn't that they don't care, but they don't care so greatly.

Diana Gabaldon

#27. I've changed my mind," through harsh, whistling breaths. "I think I'll make her into my pet in your stead." "Sahara!" A rage of sound. "I'll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!" They were the last words she heard before her mind went black.

Nalini Singh

#28. The dark prince sat astride his black steed, his sable cape flowing behind him. A golden circlet bound his blond locks, his handsome face was cold with the rage of battle, and ...
"And his arm looked like an eggplant," Clary muttered to herself in exasperation.

Cassandra Clare

#29. The biggest misconception about success is "you're lucky". It's not a coincidence, it takes hard work. Prayer without work is dead.

Anderecco

#30. We turned to find Morpheus standing there with enough rage in his black eyes to send the Devil packing for heaven.

A.G. Howard

#31. Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage.
Beth about Wrath

J.R. Ward

#32. Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.

Angie Thomas

#33. 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.

Erica Jong

#34. What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Mary Jo Bang