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...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

…you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can’t have a black one..
– John Geddes

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  2. Black funeral dress. Black heels. Black headband in my hair. Death has a style all it’s own. I’m glad I don’t have to wear it very often. – Courtney C Stevens
  3. Black rose, black roseWho’s gonna be your only one?Who’s gonna keep you safe and warm?Run, run my baby black roseI’m gonna find you home. – PM Highlanders
  4. I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. – Allan Dare Pearce
  5. the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror – we all have it – that shadow self – that dark heart… – John Geddes
  6. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  7. …I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness – now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? … – John Geddes
  8. …I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion – can you understand that?… – John Geddes
  9. …at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches at the door… – John Geddes
  10. You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by. – Lemony Snicket
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  12. …to know an other’s interior life you are his confessor or a writer – the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits – John Geddes
  13. …a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator…. – John Geddes
  14. …what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth… – John Geddes
  15. …authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer… – John Geddes
  16. …if you’ve got writer’s block, you aren’t empty – maybe it’s just like Twitter – overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while… – John Geddes
  17. …when you’re a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself… – John Geddes
  18. …If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-”but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum… – John Geddes
  19. …in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain… – John Geddes
  20. …dark embers smolder inside me – one touch and they flare – who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?… – John Geddes
  21. …we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves… – John Geddes
  22. …in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights – and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses…lie abandoned by you… – John Geddes
  23. …in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights – and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses…lie abandoned by you… – John Geddes
  24. I covet solitude and storms-¦and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance – John J Geddes
  25. …our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives… – John Geddes
  26. …who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children’s eyes…? – John Geddes
  27. The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart. – Criss Jami
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  30. Imagine life as … black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect. – Ibrahim Khidair Ali
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  34. When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining. – Holly Black
  35. What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black culture? – Amandla Stenberg
  36. Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don’t respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals. – Werley Nortreus
  37. Black graffiti on a black helicopter. – The Covert Comic
  38. …The fact that it’s black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. – Daphne du Maurier
  39. First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man – Alice Walker
  40. Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information. – Neil Gaiman

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