A.Z. Black Quotes

It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves the illusion of understanding, and give a cover to our past actions.

I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Morally it may be better to not kill any creature for their flesh, but biologically, meat was one of the greatest factors involved in the rise of the psychology of thinking humanity.

The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful

You can't lie a lifetime, son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

He was clearly used to sucking in the universe, examining it, then bending it to his will.

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

black identities are diverse and complex…

It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.

How many lovers did a person need, anyway?

Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.

In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

By that thinking, surely she was not bad Luck, but Good, undefined.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

There was nothing better than the feel of a book in your hand, listening to the crinkling sounds as you turned its pages and the smell of its crisp paper.

The happiest people are the one who have mastered life's hardest lesson. They've learned how to let go,

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

but sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for.

The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.

…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

Let bricks of truth fill the skies and send their walls of conformity crashing downAnd let the heavens echo with the blows of our liberation

West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.

I am a daughter, a son of God's, part of God's royal family. In the perspective of eternity, many things of this world are petty, beneath me: Vulgarity, stinginess, greed, grudges.

He was definitely taking his bodyguard duties seriously tonight. He gave off a take-one-step-closer-and-I-will-show-you-Armageddon vibe.

If you keep it, " Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

Pride and integrity are some ingredients that define respect. Don't compromise them for short lived attention.

What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother’s remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?

You're yourself, " Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

Who cares about a test? There will be a million more quizzed in your life.

Life is a gift. Regard it as such. Return the blessing through each life you touch. Every seed planted, springs forth new birth. Allow your bouquet to cover the earth.