Black Hair Quotes

• I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

  Alice Sebold

  Hair, Black, Promise

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Growing Up, Believe, Mean

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• Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Hair, Black

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.90, Penguin

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• When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  Girl, Writing, Hair

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• The twilight is long fingers and black hair.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Hair, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.193, Macmillan

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• Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, New York, Block

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• Black hair and blue eyes are my favorite combination.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Blue

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

  Miley Cyrus

  Hippie, Hair, Who I Am

  "Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 29, 2009.

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• His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. "Starting to think you were going to bail on me." "Didn't know you were expecting me," she said in what she hoped was a casual voice. He gets sexier every day. "Not Expecting, but hoping. Always hoping

  Melissa Marr

  Thinking, Hair, Blue

  Melissa Marr (2011). “Wicked Lovely with Bonus Material”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I had long, black hair. I was going to school with makeup. Because I was trying to find my language, to scream to the world that I felt so closed in a box where I was living.

  Riccardo Tisci

  School, Makeup, Hair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how one woman can have so much black hair. You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. You will always run away with her. You will always lose her. You will always be a fool. You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear. You have already done all of this and will do it again.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Running, Falling In Love, Cutting

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• I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Girl, Sleep

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Pickwick Papers”, p.202, BookRix

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• She thinks that he looks like Elvis, when he runs his fingers through that jet black hair.

  Joe Diffie

  Running, Thinking, Hair

  Song: Bigger Than The Beatles, Album: Life's So Funny, 1995

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• My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.

  Diane Ackerman

  Mother, Hair, Squids

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• Damnit.' Isabelle, standing in the mouth of the alley, her wet black hair like a cloak around her shoulders, kicked a trash can out of her way and glowered. 'Oh, for goodness's sake,' she said. 'I can't believe you two. Why? What's wrong with bedrooms? And pivacy?

  Cassandra Clare

  Believe, Hair, Two

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• It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

  Holly Black

  Dark, Mirrors, Hair

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Hair, Flames, White

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• Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.

  Gail Carriger

  Sweet, Hair, Black

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• They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck.

  Omar Sharif

  Eye, Hair, Black

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• If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Beach, Hair, Black

  Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.336, Delacorte Press

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• My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Hair

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• 'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hair, Land, Sky

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• I like having black hair. When I was really young, I wanted to be Asian - Asian hair is beautiful. I also wanted to look like the girl in George Michael's 'Father Figure' video.

  Pauley Perrette

  Beautiful, Girl, Father

  "NCIS' Tattooed Abby Defies Stereotypes". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.tvguide.com. December 4, 2007.

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• I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

  Trevor McDonald

  Father, Hair, Black

  "Sir Trevor McDonald". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Magnus had a list of favored traits in a partner-black hair, blue eyes, honest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Blue

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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