We could see the black bullet which was our mother’s helmet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the back of Yoren's faded black cloak up ahead of the wagons, but she was determined not to go crying to him for help. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Until the early 1970s, there was a great overlap between black and white names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou’s cousin Ben was lying on her bed, staring at me with his black, black eyes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed about his lips and ears. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

If Neda was considered the "good girl" in the family, then my cousin Mitra was the rebellious black sheep. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I found myself glancing at the vacant Arizona sky, hoping to see her black form swelling out of the earth, laying claim to her half of the heavens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like this kinda stuff is exclusive to black people, you know? The reasoning may be different, but that’s about it. Your parents don’t have a problem with us dating?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The Old Man of the Moon looked at Haiyi, his black eyes piercing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The largest black newspaper, the World, with a circulation of over two hundred thousand, was shut down, its journalists and editor, Percy Qoboza, detained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had already laid out clothes for him on the bed: a black suit, white shirt, black tie, white undershirt and underpants, black socks. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Asian and Hispanic people; black and white people. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He reached into the bag and pulled out clunky black leather numbers with metal bars across the tops. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He would have seen only what appeared to be a crude pile of black bricks.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, too, battered trash cans were chained to a black lamppost, only these were filled with garbage, some of which had spilled out and lay scattered in puddles of pulpy hash. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But if either evaluation had a black mark on it, the seven-year sentence would stand. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could just see her sitting among all them black folks catching the Holy Ghost in the pews around her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Steven had been reading an article about some new animals being added to the Brookfield Zoo, and now he was arguing with Alan about which was more dangerous: a lion or a black rhinoceros. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The star would, however, continue to exert the same gravitational force on the spaceship, which would continue to orbit the black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before she fled, she advised the boy that he had better not try to converse with women who were dressed in black, because they were married women. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing another one of his loose-fitting tunics, this one navy blue, with black bottoms. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He strode into the black hole still carrying Sophie in one hand, the trumpet and the suitcase in the other. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m black, and I could never figure out why everyone made such a big deal about race. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He initiated legal proceedings to gain custody of their children and became intent on publicly disgracing his wife by exposing her infidelity and revealing her relationship with a black man. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We had only second-hand stuff, rental houses in one redneck Catholic neighborhood after another, clothes at Round Robin, a black and white TV afflicted with wavy lines. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was black and very simple, its face showing only a digital display of the time. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There, on our bench, sat a tall girl with black hair and skin the same color as mine. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what about all those black babies going to white homes?” she had said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They lived too far away to attend any of the few high schools open to black students. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘You can’t have a black pope if there are no black nuns.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Bees live in there, black bees that sting terribly, but make the best honey in the world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others were satisfied to label me as a black person and attach to the label any definition they might have as to what that meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The painting of a tennis match between black and white players where neither had yet to score. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The important thing is that in two hours all of the rock is gone, and so is the ripped black plastic sheeting underneath. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then came the soul of Agamemnon, son of Atreus, in black pain forever, surrounded by men-at-arms who perished with him in Aigisthos’ hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore sneakers, nice black pants, and a green long-sleeved shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

African boxers, like all black athletes and artists, were shackled by the twin handicaps of poverty and racism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reflections from the flames glittered off four black eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Only the black walls of the old prison remained, the roof long since fallen in or destroyed so that the night sky was visible high above, dense with clouds and free of stars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I stare at him, at the traces of silver on his face from the party, at the inky black of his eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He chose the flavors: wild cherry for the black pawn and peppermint for the white knight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he stared, the black sticks flickered on the white surface. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she remembered the black brother who had come to visit her father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A tinier version than the cover beetle, drawn in black ink. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"You ever know a black man got one of them?" asked Major. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stale air drifted from black openings at the ends of the platform. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The day I had waited for so long had turned black and ugly. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Mutual served as the nucleus for virtually all other black enterprises in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing there with his mouth open, holding a black plastic bag in one hand and his phone in the other. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Three black dogs raced across his faded yellow surcoat, and his face looked as hard as if it had been cut from stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They saw seven black plastic garbage bags sitting on the floor of the van. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of wheeling, excited black birds passed overhead. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Another girl in my group, an incoming freshman dressed all in black, was on the fat side. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Earlier this morning, in the pitch black, I bathed and washed my hair in the wooden shack out back, crouching, shivering, wincing beneath buckets of frigid water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit in their black Volkswagens at the top of our drive, blocking our way out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Folks had criticized Miss Love the week before for wearing black as if she was grieving for Granny. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The black brothers began to pass out food. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I remember the stars had a particular brightness to them, like snowflakes on a black table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and held out his black sword. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The skin has been pulled back tightly and tattooed with black and gold stripes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Until the day came when a black man in a suit and with a funny accent decided to call it his little dream house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“This is Saturday,” a black girl said to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aibileen doesn’t cry, just lets a parcel of time pass while I stare at the typewriter, she at the worn black tiles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A man stepped out of the crowd of torchbearers, his black beard obscuring half his face, his eyes glittering in the torchlight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Love’s horse turned out to be a tall, prancy black gelding with a star on his forehead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The curtains were never drawn in that house, and through the windows I could see huge snowflakes falling slowly on to an outside world that was as black as tar. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had on a cream-colored suit, a wide-brimmed floppy hat, a black string tie, a silk vest, and narrow shoes that had weaving in the toes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The windows are boarded up with that same “black owned” tag on them, like it’s lamb’s blood protecting the store from the plague of death. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

What is the probability his assailant was indeed black? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hid from an old black man who drove a wagon pulled by a mule. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I slowed up to check out Hank’s window display—all tacked-up Ts, glass pipes, bongs and black velvet boards of jewelry—then ground to a halt at the entrance. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The room was dominated by a giant decaying bed decorated with huge posts at each corner, dusty velvet curtains hanging from above, and black tassels and carved gargoyles covered in cobwebs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

None of them looked alike; one was redheaded, one a blonde, one had black hair, and there were all different shades of brown. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Honor students—black, white, or Asia Minor—tended to be nicer. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She had brought the alethiometer with her, and now that it was light enough to see, she took the beloved instrument out and laid it on its black velvet cloth in her lap. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He took a sip of his beer, focusing on the black bottle and avoiding Cora’s eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Everything they owned was still in the hut: the small pile of black clothes in the corner of the room, the red checked scarves, and their wooden food bowls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt now—it was the same black car. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

By an hour after dawn the first flats were mounded over, and the foreman, a white man, stood writing Roman numerals in a black book beside the name of each picker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

None knew yet that it belonged to him and he walked out to see it alone, a long square of heavy black clay that lay stretched beside the moat encircling the wall of the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A small jagged piece of plastic, black, with a bit of silver in the middle. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He stepped forward and sluiced a spray of black tobacco juice out of the side of his mouth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The best color is white with a lot of black spots, like an Appaloosa horse. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her hair is as black as a raven’s wing.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe you,” the man in black said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed across the black sky, and I cowered in fear. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black one had stitching round the top, the white none; she could feel which was which, make sure she got each sock on the right leg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Percy pointed east, where a black winged shape was spiraling toward them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some of them have black goggles on so I can’t see their eyes at all. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black centers. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But right before the stone hit, out of nowhere, a black shadow jumped in and seized it! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dark was Furlough wearing a black hood and shaking his head no. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They came past us with the black horse well in front and on the turn he was running away from the others. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

This one was bigger than the first, with a thick brown and black coat and creepy blue eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Anyway thats the dream and I got a headake and a big lump on my head and black and blue marks all over. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many of them, all marching in time together, their shiny green helmets and polished black jackboots glinting in the sun. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The queer rasping call of the blackbird rose from the grass, and now and then they caught the flash of scarlet on the glossy black wings. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

My husband cooked better than I did, and when I stayed home after our first baby I had to learn to cook from my black friends Susie Belton and Irene Johnson. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benny stung Robbie with that one, but before Robbie could snap back, Mr. Ray came out of the church with two other guys also dressed in black suits. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Agent Jones spoke into his hidden mic and the troop of black shirts disguised as Republic of ChaCha rebels burst from the jungle bearing machine guns, shouting and shooting into the air. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

‘Put your hat on,’ my mother said, handing me a stiff wide-brimmed straw-hat with a blue and black band around it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leader of the group is a young, dark-haired man dressed all in black, except for two rows of silver buttons that line his officer jacket. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Every count whose cook added the bite of costly black pepper to his food knew he was getting a taste of far distant lands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It has boasted black mayors, black police chiefs, black legislators, and is home to the nation’s first black president. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He filled one of his mother’s long black stockings with ashes and roamed the streets with his gang swinging his homely blackjack and crying out raucously from time to time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin has plans to make, Axel has eagles to watch in the tree, Lark digs through her own black bag; Byrd does not get a response. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He disarmed Tom and put him in a cell and fed him black coffee and brandy until Samuel came for him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Construction hadn’t started beneath the house but at the other end of the black hole. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And Mother, behind the podium, was holding up a tiny black feather. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all looked--the knuckle was black and blue. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure how long I stared down at it before I picked it up again and held it toward the light, trying to see if I could peer inside of the black outer shell. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then Constantin and the Russian girl interpreter and the whole bunch of black and white and yellow men arguing down there behind their labeled microphones seemed to move off at a distance. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had a drooping, saggy mustache and black hair that fell below the neck. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so evident that Mrs. Turner took black folk as a personal affront to herself. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had a thick black beard and a full head of black hair topped with a cap. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The throb pulsed on, insistent, and he saw hundreds of black men and women beating drums with their fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, she was becoming impatient with the segregation that mandated a separate council for black scouts, and she began campaigning for one organization overseeing all the scouts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After the Depression, which the Mutual weathered with little damage, Spaulding was hailed as the “undisputed leader of the black business world.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the way there we seemed to be riding side-by-side with black storm clouds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1954, black and white youth unemployment rates in America were equal, with blacks actually having a slightly higher rate of employment in the age group sixteen to nineteen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Johnny said Raquel was a modern dancer and wore black clothes. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Old Armistead, tom by the war away from his beloved friend Win Hancock, who was undoubtedly waiting ahead on that black hill beyond Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It resembled nothing so much as a rippling black cape, the edges fluttering slightly as it slithered up the bed towards me. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first black alderman had been elected in 1915, and he was later elected to Congress. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Milo turned livid with indignation, his slim long nose flickering spasmodically between his black eyebrows and his unbalanced orange-brown mustache like the pale, thin flame of a single candle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was clothed entirely in black, a black shirt and black pants and high black leather boots. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And those brows of his that were too heavy and too black for his youth, he gathered fierce and black above his eyes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Thor said, “Careful. It can spit burning black venom. It spat its poison at me, but it missed. That’s why we tied its head to the tree like that.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Dark silver paint streaks over his cheekbones, and black lines run along his lashes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Or “See how I can make the ink blacker by mixing soot with the boiled oak galls.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Fridays black people continued to be paid for their toil in the white world, and tsotsis and other muggers continued robbing them of their hard-earned pittance, often hacking and stabbing them to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike in Amman, the boys playing in Clarkston seemed to come from many different backgrounds—they were white, black, and brown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hunkie women in black babushkas go into the fields with baskets to pull them up. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow, for reasons she could never begin to explain, the man in black frightened her more. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sing with me, the duende cries, sing for the black sea that awaits your voice. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoes sank into the soil, which had become black and soupy in an instant, the water level rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were interested in Ivory Christian, and they were particularly interested in two other black players who were only juniors, Hill and Comer, because it was never too early to start laying the foundations. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of the candles are burning, but the sight is no less resplendent as they illuminate the twisting black branches, casting dancing shadows over the striped walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As you fall toward the singularity, the black hole’s mass appears to grow and grow to infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When Queenie turned up unexpectedly during a break in the Manchester Blitz, and they spent three wet and stormy days burning black market petrol up and down the Pennines on Maddie’s Silent Superb. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The procession moved slowly and quietly through a black sea of men and women dressed for mourning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The people have all different color hair: black and frizzy, orange curls, red straight strands, blond waves, or black straight bobs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next expert uncovered another easel on which there was a picture of a big black bug. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was then that the gentleman with the black silk top hat passed by the stall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They both wear black pants and white shirts, typical Candor outfits, and his father speaks so loudly I can almost hear him from where I stand. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Love stories aren’t written for girls who could do what I just did to my brother, for girls with black hearts. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

From time to time a raven would fly overhead, big black wings slapping against the cold air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Companies arranged kickbacks for buying certain products, and a black market in stolen equipment thrived. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He approached Harry at a swift walk, his black robes swishing, then stopped in front of him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the second day of slowly rifling through Benton’s things, Cabot Searcy came upon a photo album labeled with a strip of masking tape and a black marker. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She used plain white labels and cut out dots and dashes for Morse code and then stuck them on a black shirt like this: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Milagros introduced us, handed Doña Charito a note, and fled back to one of the three black cars idling in the driveway like great, nervous, snorting horses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Though the student body was predominantly black, the school’s president and much of the faculty were white. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Piper saw the tip of a black wing, and Percy began to turn toward the sound. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then again, when he had removed his black mask and she had tumbled to him, surprise had been operating, stunned astonishment as much as emotion. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pit was completely black when his hands struck against rock instead of bone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was glossy black with silver- and honey-colored spots. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst violence took place at dusk, when the city’s thousands of black factory workers were attacked as they walked home from work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In June of 1975 I was chosen to represent the southern Transvaal black junior tennis squad in the National Tour- nament in Pretoria. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

God had a mission for us when he put us here long before you blacks ever reached here from central Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were round and smooth, rubbled by wind and water and weather and time, but mixed in with them were black, hardened shards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Coarse black hair covered his thick chest and muscular arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As day drifted into night, the sky shucked its oranges and purples for black and blue. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As of June 2001, there were nearly twenty thousand more black men in the Illinois state prison system than enrolled in the state’s public universities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Small letters were written across the skin in thin black ink. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I had never seen so many brown...and black people. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The landscape—at least what she could see of it—was rocky black plains, punctuated by jagged mountains and fiery chasms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

High above the buildings’ black silhouette stars shone in a clear sky. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a black woman gets out from the passenger side, just as Layla walks in and shouts, “Yes! We won! Give us our money!” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Eventually the schools reopened, farm shops sold food, distribution networks sprang up and the black market offered everything from imported drugs to new shoes if you could afford to pay. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

High above, the red and black waters boiled and bubbled. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

One much larger black spot is masked by leafy fern curtains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Through a big glass window, he sees his sister asleep, lying in a small glass bed, the only one of the babies in the nursery to have a thick head of black hair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The hour of the wolf. The blackest part of night, when all the world’s asleep.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Just about all of those whites specifically expressed as their preference black, black, ‘ ‘the blacker the better! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he took her into Hopkins, they started doing treatments, then her stomach turned black as coal and she died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, for many black men, the hurt and depression give way to anger. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a beautifully written story, but, more important, it was a story about the black urban experience. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Kaz slid a black wood panel aside and unlocked the safe hidden behind it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were on the north side of town anyway, Little Africa, where blacks, Mexicans, and Indians lived; and the only white people over there were Slav storekeepers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her long black hair spilled down over her right shoulder. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The colonial powers carved up Africa, put the black man to work, and did not properly educate him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

With a snap, he recapped the bottle and dropped it into the black doctor’s bag by his feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His mouth had swollen into a shapeless cherry-colored mass with a black hole in the middle of it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but think that my own mother’s hair is still full and black. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hear a loud click as he unlocks the black door. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Try being a white person who adopts the trappings of black culture while still living in the white community. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in front was a teenage boy in black jeans and an aviator jacket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could see her broadside on from here, the red underwater section showing against the black of the top-sides, and the single funnel leaning rakishly towards the cliffs beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had never seen hair so long, so black, so thick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her long black hair whipped behind her as she fought through the brush. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I checked out his gear: black jeans, a white tank top, and a black backpack. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Halfway up the hill Jody could see Doubletree Mutt, the black dog, digging in a squirrel hole. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most Afrikaners, they thought that because many of the Communists in the ANC were white or Indian, they were controlling the blacks in the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel dragged Percy out of the road as a demigod rode past on a full-grown pachyderm covered in black Kevlar armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Precisely one minute before the hour, they each ascend their respective platforms and pull from their backs shimmering black bows and arrows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was black, stood about five ten, and carried a muscular 210 pounds or so. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The roads on it were marked with velvet black ink, rivers a pearly blue, mountains a speckled green. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I notice the black spot on his back. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like that word, remember? Try calling me black or Negro or even colored.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a wide-sleeved tunic of black, and ankle-length hose with a different color for each leg, one blue, the other red, though the colors were faded. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond Harken Square, the lighted windows of the buildings made checkered lines, yellow and black, row after row, in all directions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But a great number of “black” people already are beige. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“There is not as much taboo in whites’ attitudes towards blacks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in her tan gabardine teaching suit with black blouse, she was off to school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half-moon spectacles were perched on his crooked nose, and he was wearing a long black traveling cloak and a pointed hat. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The boy shrugged his shoulders and looked at him with his black eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The door was pulled open by a woman with haunted eyes and thin, oily black hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The stores, the signs, the sidewalks, the cars were all covered with a film of black coal dust, giving the town an almost monochromatic look, like an old hand-tinted photograph. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tall, heavy white drapes cover the backdrop of the entire stage, which is ready with microphones, three music stands, and a black baby-grand piano. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Illyrio smiled as his serving men spooned out bowls of black cherries in sweet cream for them both. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The yellow striped cat and the black goat followed him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a crude fireplace with one or two black iron pots standing in front of it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today she’s wearing one of her standard outfits—a neon-purple dress that hits her above the knees and high black boots. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The resistance, the black market—she thinks we’re all one network, sharing information, plotting against the Germans. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I open the cover to find a picture of myself, standing straight and strong, in a black uniform. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The boat was taking fuel on board; the railcars were hauled alongside and tilted sideways to let coal thunder down the chutes into the hold, and the black dust rose high above them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Wearing his Marine fatigues, Uncle Jet proudly held a black rifle across his broad chest. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I most certainly am not all right,” Celia says, and the bottle of ink shatters, raining ink over the papers and splattering Marco’s white shirtsleeves, falling into invisibility on his black vest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The little black man was still standing in the open doorway. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Most, he was beginning to dread the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The black bars on their sides made them look as if they had been grilled, and these also could become darker or lighter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

An 1875 amendment to the state constitution provided for “separate but equal” schools for whites, blacks, and Indians, laying the foundation for discrimination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through our conversation it came up that I spoke several African languages, and Theesan thought a colored kid speaking black languages was the most amazing trick. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Girls are told not to have children until they are married to a “good” black man who can help provide for a family with a legal job. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the black empathy box his wife crouched, her face rapt. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Four pence,” said the barber, beginning to pass a black cloth in and out of the, hot water. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I do this as threateningly as I can, thinking of crocodiles, sharks, black piranhas for courage. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was not wearing nightclothes, but was dressed in his usual black cloak, and he too was holding his wand ready for a fight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Enough,” the black brother roared, prying the stick sword from her fingers, "you want to kill the fool?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Just as he didn’t have a choice that their father was white and their mother was black and that because he was both, he often felt he wasn’t allowed to be either one. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With sure motions, the Villac Uma removed the heart of the black llama and held it up for all to see. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They pointed to the settlement of the desegregation suit and the strange zigs and zags of the boundary line that resulted in Permian’s getting more blacks than Odessa High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the shade of the forest, Minli’s black head burned hot. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at the end of the block was my giant dog and a small figure in black armor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The great cavern that opened on the abyss was as black as pitch, black as tar, blacker than the feathers of a crow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The patient continued to bleed from the bowels, and these hemorrhages were now as black as pitch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard him expertly exhorting the audience about what is needed today by “the black man here in these United States.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the fight dies down, my clothes are more paint-colored than black. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some, the notion that black communities are severely stigmatized and shamed by criminality is counterintuitive: if incarceration in many urban areas is the statistical norm, why isn’t it socially normative as well? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was made of stout black leather and was so stiff she had difficulty forcing her gnarled hand into it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Imagined shiny black boots coming soft down the hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The black men have long since hidden themselves aboard the Flying Squadron, and I’m not at all convinced that the mob won’t content themselves with a redheaded dwarf instead. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He brought out the flashlight and focused the round spot on a rickety stairway leading upward into a still blacker darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Take these,” said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But next to the accomplishments of whites, the stories about blacks in the Amsterdam News were almost silly. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He pointed out toward some black shapes rising from the water against the darkening horizon, then raised a spyglass. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She had short, wiry black hair and a good-humored, almost perfectly round face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Moon, now at the full, rose over the mountains, and cast a pale light in which the shadows of stones were black. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had hung his black hat on his saddle horn. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Coming upon a black man out walking with his wife, they pursued him and beat him unconscious. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The black sleeve of her blouse was torn. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He remembered two black eyes, a low growl interrupting the stillness of the jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Beside the decapitated rat, a smug expression on its face, was the black cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The walls are a dark, deep red, and everything else is black— desk, chair, bookcase, bedspread, guitars. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Finally,” Ripred said, and slid into the black hole of the tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man in black quickly tied Inigo’s hands around a tree and left him there, for the moment, sleeping and helpless. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Here is an example featuring children simultaneously singing three different children's songs29 that are set to the same tune: "Baa, Baa black sheep," "Twinkle, twinkle, little star," and "The Alphabet Song." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Candor man wears a black suit with a white tie— Candor standard uniform. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Captain brought in the black tea and the tin of milk, which he had neatly poked open with an ice pick—two holes on one side, one on the other. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two black eyes glimmered at him unblinking, like an owl's. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The movie played on and then finished and then ran its credits, went to black screen, clicked off, rewound, started playing automatically again; I kept on gluing. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The stones are square and arched, black and gray, more often plain than shiny, caked with lichen and moss. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This region is what we now call a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his black doublet, an emblazoned gold rendering of the royal wyvern occupied the entirety of the chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She watched as I finished cutting up the little squids and cleaning out the entrails that had become black with its ink. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the black of night, a single wooden cross blazed. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then there was a loud bang and Hermione vanished behind a puff of black smoke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His black clothes were dusty from traveling in the Labyrinth, and his dark eyes were frill of hate. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And a second later, pitching down in a swirl of white limbs, black silk, and green twigs, the witch fell right at the feet of Father MacPhail, her bones crunching audibly on the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tapped by the hand of God to bring my particular skills to bear on the issues facing blacks in America. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A girl that big, a girl who comes in with her pretty face all beaten and black can’t be falling off the stairs. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But C.P. just glared at Clement’s outstretched black hand as if it was a piece of garbage someone was trying to force on him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Remember that: I know how black it looks today, for you. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

There’s no record of Benjamin or Albert Lacks marrying or having any white children, and as with Albert, there’s no record that the black children in Benjamin’s will were his own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had a black eye and red lines on his face that looked like a slap mark. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When I was a seventh grade student at Finley Avenue Elementary School, Mr. A. G. Gaston held a spelling bee for Birmingham’s black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a pale pink dress and a set of pearls and kept a black purse draped properly over one arm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My English teacher, a tall, wiry fellow with a Ph.D. from one of the black universities, gave us The Merchant of Venice for a reading assignment. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He ... I was trying to wash him,” Granny whimpered, “here,” she continued, pointing, “and . . . that black little Devil. . .” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa shone her light down on a steeply descending, slick black chute of metal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes look like black pits, and he wears a smirk that spreads too wide across his face, forcing wrinkles into his cheeks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

One year, an employer simply split the office into two militarized zones on game day, thereby allowing Permian supporters to decorate their half black and Odessa High supporters their half red. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I visualize his shoes, black, well shined, impenetrable, keeping their own counsel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that separate public schools for whites and blacks were illegal? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grim black cliffs reached up 800 feet into the fog at their backs, and the 2,500-foot peaks behind those were covered with glaciers and snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The cops, almost all of them were white, but two of them were black. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She had spiky black hair, dark eyeliner around her stormy blue eyes, and a spray of freckles across her nose. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing dark shades and a black overcoat. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It is the size of a large postcard, attached to the black ribbon the way one might attach a gift card to a present. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Frantically, he racked his mind, thinking of what he knew about black mambas. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The set consists of the future, which will be sparsely furnished, but will contain a good many cylindrical black columns and several austere flights of stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the black people had to build within themselves much greater awareness that along with equal rights there had to be the bearing of equal responsibilities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black hole opened up in the centre of the room and swallowed me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at my black button-up shirt, black pants, and black boots and said, “You always wear black, so I figured I should dress like you so I blend in.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

White people came because they wanted to see what it was like to sit with black people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He should have a black patch, over one eye, a cravat with horseshoes on it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

While watching a baseball game in a park, Claudette was joined by a light-skinned black man. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Another black guy, a specialist, fourth class, came over and joined me and Peewee. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot spring that began in Orangeburg stretched into another hot summer, with angry protests flaring up both in the black community and before various city bodies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We sat at a table in the corner, our reflections mirrored in the black of the plate-glass windows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At first he wouldn’t tell anyone what had happened—not even when Danny threatened to give him a matching set of black, green, and purple eyes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A serious lady in thick black glasses even suggests I be taken to her lab and studied. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I pointed the new black ballet flats Daddy had bought me toward the windows, holding the arches of my feet, feeling the stretch in my sleepy hamstrings. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As we made our way through the matchbox-type Tembisa houses, we saw fires and palls of black smoke in the distance. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the black dress and because she had been crying. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a light in the dining room but Lee found Adam in the kitchen, scraping at a thick black crust in the frying pan with the point of a can opener. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Voters, especially liberal and black voters, viewed Washington as a kind of golden savior, a symbol, the man who could change everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All the names would be listed on the two huge wings of the wall, etched into black granite. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I slung a now-unconscious Belet over my shoulder—she seemed too light—and with Kasusu in my hand, ran around to the rear, finding Ishtar's gleaming black Jaguar parked in the alley. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We were looking out the windows at the black sky above us. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still dressed in her black velvet dress and her pearls. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls her hair back tight, like she is trying to pull it out or something, but then she lets it fall around her shoulders in a thick black curtain. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“His mother is Japanese and his father is black,” I explained. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Around the occupied tables handsome waiters gathered, their black hair slicked back into bullfighters' little ponytails. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He saw now that the belly was covered with red feathers and those on the bird’s long legs were white and black. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Hudluns, one of Chicago’s early black families, standing outside their home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Fischer, playing brilliantly with the black pieces the next day, won his first game ever against the Russian, a former World Champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He clams up after that, shooting me a few black looks when he thinks I ain’t looking. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Her black hair is cut chin-length and square, the same style as the rest of us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police officers—two big guys in tall black boots—parked and followed her up onto the porch. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My father resisted his black lung and kept going into the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were three scarecrows, their clothes in tatters, their faces black with soot and grease, their hair and beards matted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

We emerged at the base of a cliff, on a plain of black volcanic sand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The crowd parted a bit, and Moss caught a flash of hair, a black suit. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over the next two years, many southern blacks found themselves out of work or working for next to nothing, earning barely enough to cover basic necessities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The forest along both sides of the road was like a black wall — as hard as a wall of steel if we veered off the road at this speed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The water wall had long stopped singing, and the sky had darkened to an endless black by the time the kids were finished bouncing ideas back and forth. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Apartheid,” I said, “thrived on the enmity and fear between black and white.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed down the hall at the black smoke billowing their way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed Kuwei and launched them both into the black mouth beneath the roots of the tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She and most of the other black kids spend more time commuting to school each day than I do in a week. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the distance they were like grains of black sand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For a moment Sam caught a glitter in the black stones of their eyes, the very malice of which made him quail; but slowly he felt their will waver and crumble into fear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On the other side, blacks like Mr. Horton showed their passion for the power of the ballot and came out in large numbers for Big Bill. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whites tend to sell to whites; blacks to blacks. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dressed formally as he was, in a black tuxedo, it was obvious that he was part of the debut court, the escort of one of the birthday girl’s attendants perhaps. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He has his own little stash up here, black- market stuff I suppose. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped off passen­gers, men dressed in dark suits, women clad in black dresses, their heads covered with traditional white hijabs. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At a mass meeting in late December, Ann lashed out against those who termed the boycott an example of “black lawlessness.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The white man was hungry and greedy for land, and the black man shared the land with him as they shared the air and water; land was not for man to possess. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the black hood his face was as pale and round as the moon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was an uncomfortable pause, during winch a black lap dog with a pug nose escaped into the lists and scampered about on some errand best known to itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant forcing black people and white people to live apart and unequal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting paid good butler money, though,” Charlise says, as she unbuttons her shirt to reveal a black sports bra underneath. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I remember how tall and straight and handsome he looked, with his high-crowned hat and his black mustaches drooping in cow-horn curves past the corners of his mouth. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his side he held a black composite bow almost as fancy as his eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Beetee wheels back in with a tall, black rectangular case awkwardly positioned between his footrest and his shoulder. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Typical JP: His face was blacked, which was a good cover for the massive purple bruise around his eye, and he was dressed in combat fatigues with a camouflaged bucket hat that shaded his eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The way the collar of his black jacket lay across his neck made her unable to sit still. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bulldozers had flattened millions of tons of coal tailings to create a black desert that stretched far down the narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her black leather sneakers sit a few feet away, next to her carefully folded coat. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He let the man in black feint and dodge and try a hold here, a hold there. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Initially, I was shy of the black students—afraid of what they’d discover about me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From neighborhood to neighborhood and from school to school, black children and youth whispered the plans to one another, made their poster board signs, and waited with excited anticipation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the shower’s obscurity, all I could see was a black shadow and gleaming white teeth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told me the black and white children just “couldn’t seem to get along.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon the black Chevrolet had reached Emporia, Kansas—a large town, almost a city, and a safe place, so the occupants of the car had decided, to do a bit of shopping. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It remained dark, not only because of the smokes of the Mountain: there seemed to be a storm coming up, and away to the south-east there was a shimmer of lightnings under the black skies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The first of these acts of violence took place on May 8, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina, after a fight between local blacks and sailors stationed at a nearby naval training station erupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Prayed he’d be safe from all the dangers that lurked for a young black man in Oakland—guns and crime and gangs and cops. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And he not only wouldn’t be seen with any woman but a black one, but in fact he lived with two of them in the same little apartment. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

For additional protection, he suggested taking frequent warm baths and inhaling finely ground black pepper. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Only instead of wearing one of those colorful caps with bells, he wore a black hat like the other men, and the bottom of his coat danced along with his every move. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Pima’s mother told him and Pima to use the masks no matter what, and for sure there was a lot of black grime in the filters when he immersed them in the ocean. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The scabbard was embossed in silver, and the handle was black and encrusted with precious stones. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through my interpreter, I lost no opportunity to advertise the American black man’s real plight. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grief appeared alone at daybreak, her black sails stark against the pale pink skies of morning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nately’s nose was in a bulky cast, and he had two black eyes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A moment later the sleek black head appeared; two dense obsidian eyes stared at the sleeping mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her black hair was twisted up in a haphazard knot and the dark circles under her eyes were more pronounced tonight. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her straight black hair is tied back, giving us a view of her angular, thin face. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, lying on the black ice there, Billy stared into the patina of the corporal’s boots, saw Adam and Eve in the golden depths. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pomodoro of the rubbery face has thick, black hair, and he has long bones with not much meat on them. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She blows a black bubble and sucks it back into her mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We passed what I thought must have been a black wrought iron fence, but it was almost impossible to see, trapped as it was beneath what looked to be raggedy, patchwork blanket. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The boy she married was a Hasid, with a black beard, long earlocks, and dark eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was like a human skeleton, down to less than a hundred pounds, but he was still a relatively young man, and his hair was black and curly and oiled with Vitalis. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sight the girls never forgot: an impeccable black staff in a fabulous house, serving a well-heeled black family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No black brother, white brother, just a chance for anyone to be picked. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Like when people say all black people are lazy or something," Charlie said. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her nails are painted green today, with black stars on her thumbs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The wood was a dark charcoal color with a black grain, heavy as a sheet of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The trees pressed close, leaning over the path to make a rustling green roof that shut out even the moon, so it seemed as though they were moving up a long black tunnel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hair is the color of salt, his garments entirely black, and a deadly curved sword sits at his hip. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And the Titanic sank into the bubbling black water, down, down, down, down, until George closed his eyes. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest, blackest, worst cop of them all in Harlem was the West Indian, Brisbane. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How she’s always making excuses for why something is the way it is, and her reasons are never about the fact that I am black and that sometimes it really is about race. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a squeal and a yowl from the waterfront, and the little brown cat shot away from a spilled garbage can, pursued by a long-muzzled black dog. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The girl kept her head down so her short black hair fell over her cheeks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Now it was galloping around and around the black shapes on the ground, and the dementors were falling back, scattering, retreating into the darkness.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I had a month of detentions and a black mark on my permanent record. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“It was pitch black down in that drain.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was hot and the sweat was crawling down his head like little black ants. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her head was conical, an extremity too, and so thick with black hair that she almost needed a haircut. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and immediately he must have slept, for when he looked up again the small barred window was black and a bright light burned in the hall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Supreme drives a black Hummer with a gold grille on the front. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The teeth turn brown and black in their heads and fall out one by one. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We both had black hair, but my mom is northern Italian, and my eyes are blue. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the clothes in my closet are black, gray, or red. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She may have been splattered with the nun’s blood or with black vomit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black girl who’s sitting at the other eighth grade table raises her hand, and Ms. Rochambeau nods to her. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

What you can have now, missus, is black pudding and tripe or a sheep’s head or a nice pig’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His coat was black and white, penguin style. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Radar nodded toward the living room, where the tables on either side of the couch held three sets of unnested black Santa nesting dolls. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They followed the River Phlegethon, stumbling over the glassy black terrain, jumping crevices, and hiding behind rocks whenever the vampire girls slowed in front of them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All old and hard-covered in plain red or blue or black. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She shoved the bloody clothes and wipes into the black garbage bag, tied it shut, and tucked everything into the backpack. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I’d get a big speech about Marcus and how black youngsters need to achieve and how we got to work so hard to show ourselves better than the white students. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s Asian, with short black hair and kind but serious eyes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a black leather chair over against one of the walls and instrument cabinets everywhere. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Stella ran her fingers gently over the round black letter keys, pressing the S for Stella part of the way down, watching the type bar rise up toward the roller. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As a young black man in a nice car, he took it for granted that he fit a police profile. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first challenge many blacks faced in participating in something like the All-American Soap Box Derby was finding out about it in the first place. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was well past midnight, he judged from the black outside the window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was called sharecropping, and it involved black families raising and harvesting crops for white landowners in exchange for a humble place to live and a meager share of the crops. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Dirty brown boxes all tied up, with big black letters in the middle and little pictures all in the corner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

State Department’s releases to Africans which always imply that the American black man’s straggle is being “solved.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such holes hardly deserve the epithet black: they really are white hot and are emitting energy at a rate of about ten thousand megawatts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The art and Verwoerd’s crude exposition of it aroused widespread indignation from both black and white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hardened looks of grown-ups who didn’t like kids or black people, or kids who were black, were nothing new to us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was black as she could be, twisted like driftwood from being out in the weather, her face a map of all the storms and journeys she’d been through. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord of the Flies hung on his stick like a black ball. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When something brushed against her leg, she almost jumped out of her skin, but it was only a cat, a ragged black tom with a chewed-off ear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My German-speaking father, dead since I was nine, came from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Being mean will earn you a black spot, and you know what that means. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sayle raised the gun and took aim, his eyes wide, the pupils blacker than they had ever been, mere pinpricks in the bulging white. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But one arm hung limp and seemed to be bleeding; the other hugged a large black bundle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Even the Latest Model was aware that all hell was liable to break loose at any time after Dad submerged under the black cloth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer was sucked through in a black torrent. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to the top of the thickly wooded hillside and that’s when I saw it: a rounded black form, coming over the top of the hill. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The girls run and crawl to the door, their faces black from smoke and their eyes white with terror. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groups of young men—mostly immigrants, a few blacks—roamed the docks, looking for jobs as cooks and sailors on ships, or work as stevedores loading and unloading goods on the docks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For upon the top stood a black stone, round as a great globe, the height of a man, though its half was buried in the ground. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It looked to me like somebody had cut the black Mary’s picture from a book, glued it onto a sanded piece of wood about two inches across, and varnished it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now I was a racist homosexual who feared all young black men. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m wearing a black dress and a cloak, from the dress-up cupboard. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Covering his chin, there was a small neat pointed black beard—a goatee. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a long black skirt that spread like a stiff tent to the floor, and a starched white shirt edged with ruffles at the throat and cuffs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She knew where his mother's black eyes were coming from. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I looked from face to face, black and white, feeling swift panic. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing, he tore off the clothes and dressed again, in felted black wool and ringmail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She's a Bengali feminist Catholic wife of a Louisiana black man. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was only a little taller than Mr. Pennypacker and dressed all in black, including the veil on her hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soccer ball rests next to a folded black T-shirt from the stage crew. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The places between the planks were filled with black pitch which we gather along the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Mr. Muhammad’s teachings reversed my attitude toward my black brothers, in my guilt and shame I began to catch every chance I could to recruit for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vernon Dursley, whose mustache was quite as bushy as Dumbledore’s, though black, and who was wearing a puce dressing gown, was staring at the visitor as though he could not believe his tiny eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I'm walking down the street toward the car when I see a black plastic bag on the sidewalk, fluttering in the wind. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then, coming up this straight and silent street, he saw a woman, very old and black, coming toward them, staggering on the crooked stones. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Like a sinuous black lizard he slithered past slumbering creatures and around rubble heaps, never once making a sound. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she took the da-zi-bao and stuck it to the door, smoothing it out without hesitation in spite of the ink that blacked her hands. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both eyes were blacked, a chunk of his left ear was missing, and his whole body was covered in long raking claw marks and prickles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A black rim of algae rings the toilet bowl where the water has slipped away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In New York City, you let enraged blacks pour out of Harlem across Central Park and fan down the tunnels of Madison and Fifth and Lexington and Park Avenues. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alfred sat in the back wearing two pairs of jet- black plastic sunglasses, one on top of the other, each about three times too big for his face. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the afternoon clouds are gathering into their usual black popcorn. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All the big black birds had left them when the ranger did. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I suppose you know that white people kill black people from time to time, and most folks shake their heads and say, ‘Eh, eh, eh, ain’t that a shame?’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aha!” she said, drawing out an old black coat with braid around the lapels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a swirl of sand art against a black canvas. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Outside the gate they stopped, and three black figures entered, like shades of night creeping across the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The mortal form of greyscale began in the extremities, he knew: a tingling in a fingertip, a toenail turning black, a loss of feeling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The answer was obvious, as clear as night and day, black and white in Odessa, Texas, and he responded without the slightest hesitation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An intellectually disabled black woman living in Choctaw County, Alabama, Ms. Banks was accused of killing her newborn child even though police had no credible basis for believing she had ever been pregnant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The man from the funeral home pushed down the top of his black leather glove to expose his watch. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I saw a cat slide through the connection leading to the big top—it was a panther, and as its lithe black body disappeared into the canvas tunnel I braced myself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I envied them the order of their lives, the precision with which they marched with no prodding and no harsh glances, the mysterious black figures beside them like veiled anchors. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was extraordinarily dark—a blue that was almost black. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The black at the edge of my vision was curling up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was a compact man of fifty years, spare and hard, with grey in his black hair and eyes like chips of onyx. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The outdoor jobs, the men hustling through the streets with huge racks of dresses, or pushing hand trucks taller than they were, were largely black. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Or where black is used as a positive and white is used as a negative? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the era of Jim Crow—when black people showed up at white-only hospitals, the staff was likely to send them away, even if it meant they might die in the parking lot. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you come and work for me at the sports shop?” he said one Saturday afternoon as he was driving me to the black bus stop following a tennis lesson. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will looked at the two of them, the skinny pale-eyed girl with her black rat dæmon now sitting in her arms, and felt profoundly alone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ferdinand was tapped by President William McKinley to lead a campaign to reenergize black enthusiasm for the Republican Party. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Kaede and the Huntsman passed through a forest of giant trees, their trunks black with age, the sun obscured by thick, tangled vines. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning, my mother asks, “Have you seen my black leggings? I can’t find them anywhere.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Mobs frequently assembled outside the homes of black families who had ventured beyond the Black Belt, smashing up the buildings with bats, rocks, and bricks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had ignored that black cellar and gone looking for the substance of Orgoreyn aboveground, in daylight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when they come, their long black tongues slithering up the outside of the glass, looking for a way in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I grab my black music portfolio even though I won’t need it. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Scabbers began to squeak without stopping, twisting and turning, his tiny black eyes bulging in his head. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The odor of old age, of dust, of unwashed clothes and stale food intensified as she unwound a moth-eaten black shawl, revealing a head of scant white hair through which the scalp showed clearly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The square brick towers of Pentos were black silhouettes outlined against the setting sun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Or it’s a commerce of imagined dreads, the Bethlehem housewives somehow convinced that a distant, black Communist devil will cost them some quarter in their color-matched living rooms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A black crepe dress splashed with pink and yellow zinnias, foxtails, a black felt hat with the veil of net lowered over one eye. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the newly formed monsters were crawling and hobbling in the same direction—toward a bank of black fog that swallowed the horizon like a storm front. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, we stopped at a green door with Electrotherapy printed on it in black letters. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

You weren’t accepted to be with a black man and that was that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black brother is so brainwashed that he may even be repelled when he first hears the troth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Silence, with its black sails and dark red hull, was infamous in every port from Ibben to Asshai, it was said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She stands up, revealing a black fifties-style dress with crisp white collars. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"But we're staring at this black screen because it's way more interesting than pictures from Mars." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are so dark now, almost black, his expression haunted. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I scream from the diff-edge, “seize me! Seize me to your foul black bowels and crush my bones!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1998 two physicists from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that even a spinning or charged black hole—with a nice, ring-shaped singularity—will kill an astronaut, thanks to mass inflation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They had not been whitewashed and were black with soot. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they came to what they hadn’t seen clearly from the bluff: one of those patches of black or dark brown ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She waved her torch toward the black crack in the back wall of the cave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They are lithe and quick, their bodies and faces wrapped in funereal strips of black cloth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Harry leaned forward to see Hagrid, who was ruby-red in the face and staring down at his enormous hands, his wide grin hidden in the tangle of his black beard. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“No. He was tall—your height maybe—but twice your size. And he was black.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two more steps and they were at the subcellar, The tunnels here were cramped and crooked, black wormholes twisting through the heart of the great rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have to have any contact with them, except on the Permian football team. It’s the only place in Odessa where people interact at all with blacks.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour later, we were standing in front of the black minivan, watching as Zu did one last check under the seats. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But he was sitting on the other side of the room, and he was using a black marker in his sketchbook. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ten million black men and women are laboring long hours in unskilled jobs, earning barely enough to get by. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get to it then,” Fezzik said, and he dropped his rock and got into fighting position, watching as the man in black slowly moved toward him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I yank my hand from between her teeth, my vision going black at the edges, and with a lurch, smack my hand around the handle of the gun. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was short and black and shiny. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of reckless use of explosives that wouldn't have been sensible in a combat zone, much less in a poor black neighborhood in Dothan, Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The wood floors were “practically black,” the windows were “caked with dirt,” and the walls were smeared with something she “didn’t even want to think about.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Their jailers, black Union soldiers, had complete power over their daily movements. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down in his black leather chair, considered his move for ninety-five seconds, and played his knight to his king bishop’s third square. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from that, I mean nothing against any sincere whites when I say that as members of black organizations, generally whites’ very presence subtly renders the black organization automatically less effective. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the first black mood. I don’t remember much that happened after that, not for a little while at least.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore stepped into a hallway tiled in black and white; the whole place was shabby but spotlessly clean. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hale, who had an owlish face, stiff black hair, and small, alert eyes set in shaded hollows, had settled on the reservation nearly two decades earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Flames explode from its innards, sending plumes of black smoke into the sky. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As always the black people looked at evil stony-eyed and let it run. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then a streak of darkness shot into the air like black lightning—as if pure night had torn through the daytime. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The crowd outside Mother’s was white, black, Latino, Asian, just like Springfield. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The handsome black washerwoman of the inn, Lydia, came out carrying a hamper of wet clothes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I telephoned Mayfield, in what seemed no time at all I was sitting in his home surrounded by about forty black American expatriates; they had been waiting for my arrival. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks, nose, and forehead had been covered, meticulously and comprehensively, in black and white face paint. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He kept his black hair damp and oily and combed straight down to his eyes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, we rearrange the living room and Dad throws Mom’s clothing into a few black garbage bags for Goodwill. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She chose black to suit her mood, and returned to the gallery for dinner. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Being black did not immunize us from history’s logic or the lure of the Dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Headmaster,” said Madam Pomfrey, staring at the great black dog that was Sirius, “may I ask what — ?” “This dog will be remaining with Harry for a while,” said Dumbledore simply. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The gym was spray paint, but the bathroom was a black Sharpie.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We had already deduced, from Khoisan language distributions and the lack of distinct Pygmy languages, that Pygmies and Khoisan peoples had formerly ranged more widely, until they were engulfed by blacks. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would dream of making a stand against that white force, but that dream would fade when he looked at the other black people near him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After dinners, the family would sit in the open terrace with bowls of dried apricots, and pistachios, sugar candies, and a big samovar of black tea. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“This a-being that settler ship way out in the dark black yonder?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her hair was a mass of soft black curls. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shell blew very close, on the far side of the horse, and Armistead, partially shielded, saw black fragments rush by, saw Kemper nearly fall. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other officers now spurned their black oxfords for more casual boots, especially the lightweight Bates and Hi-Tec brands, which were popular among police. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The emblem on the copyright page was nearly identical to the Bayside Press logo, but instead of a seagull there was a black bird. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now she was dressed like she was going to an interview: a gray pencil skirt and heels and a blouse as black as her hair. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The women lined their eyes with dark kohl; some painted their lips and nails, and all of them wore black dresses colorfully embroidered with endless stitches, each the size of a sugar granule. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In this analogy, a black hole is a kind of bottomless pit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the field was brown and black and slimy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I saw a big black blur coming at me and, at the same time as I tried to get out of the way, I throwed left-right-left hard as I could. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Before Kyle could say another word, a black SUV crawled to a stop behind him. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the streets the first shops were already opening although the sky was still pitch black. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has black curly hair and blue eyes like Mam and she waves her little hands and chirps like any little bird in the trees along Classon Avenue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As if to prove his point, black lightning ripped through the sky, leaving dark spots before Frank’s eyes and making the hairs on his arms stand up. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow and his black brothers were gathered around three spears, some twenty yards away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was the first time their black garb seemed remotely appropriate. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The house was all shut up, curtains pulled tight, letters and papers hanging from the black metal mailbox. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had one of the rubber masks that are so realistic, with a big black hood over the head and a long black robe. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was four, I was pretty good with Dad’s pistol, a big black six-shot revolver, and could hit five out of six beer bottles at thirty paces. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Across his white-enameled helm, the black bat of his House spread its wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Reached in the breast pocket of his black vest. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the black tufts of hair falling to the floor. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Cops seemed to arrest black folks at random most of the time, just scooping people up and carting them off for the most nonsensical offenses. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

All that’s left when we’re done is a black couch, coffee table, two side tables, a folding table and chairs, plus a couple of lamps. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Yet here it was, in black and white, the possibility that I might have failed. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse became an icon of Tijuana’s black community, which turned the horse’s race days into joyful celebrations. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a couple of them, you can still see the stub of a , crosspiece, burned black. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All she saw were the emperor’s piercing black eyes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Anyone possessing a television set during this period would likely have had some awareness of the extent to which black men had been demonized in the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Through the tall window I could see, across the courtyard, the chimney looming high above, steadily emitting black smoke. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black was turning red again, and I really wasn't trying to be a repeat offender of the bully beat-down. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Most were apparently satisfied with tying a black band around their arm, but others, and not just the ones that had hit the truck for supplies, were in head-to-toe black. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“So,” Mr. Waters said to me as we hit Interstate 80, “what was with that bald guy in the black car?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Soon apartments originally designed for one family were being cut up into two- and three-family dwellings, and blacks, who had been confined previously to the West Forties, were allowed to move in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

So while Sophiatown and other black ghettos were razed and rebuilt as white suburbs, Alex fought and held on and asserted its right to exist. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They stood there a while longer, gazing up at the black clouds now coming in over the choppy ocean, pointing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

People were dressed up tonight, in gowns and in black suits with long coattails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

An old woman in a dark red suit and a name tag on her black vest sat in a folding chair, amid a pile of programmes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And anytime I got a chance to exchange words with a black brother in stripes, I’d say, “My man! You ever heard about somebody named Mr. Elijah Muhammad?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the warm darkness that the spirits in the club had been—more of a void, like she was looking into the depths of a black hole. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And I’ve packed my black suit, and Anne will meet me for the funeral in two days so I have someone to hold my hand. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The four of us sat there mesmerized by the song, trying to understand what the black fellows were saying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Above the black line of housetops the sky was warm crimson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Against the wan walls and the luminous pavement of the road Frodo could see them, small black figures in rank upon rank, marching swiftly and silently, passing outwards in an endless stream. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Another black man countered that he was tired of giving in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was no longer at a safe distance, staring at my frozen parents at the black hole’s edge. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time in his life, C.P. really listened to black people and he was stunned to hear, over and over, his own concerns coming from their mouths. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath our black clothes we were supposed to wear red panties. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The room is like thick black velvet wrapped around us. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The other one was brown and black and skinny as all get-out. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Tonight, however, there were black drapes on the wall behind the teachers’ table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Years before, the Supreme Court had issued a massive desegregation order for our nation, demanding all public facilities be opened up to everyone, black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ben ordered two cheeseburgers without onions, two medium Coca-Colas, and two large orders of fries when Lewis, a tall, expressionless black came to take his order. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth century reduced patronage and corruption and introduced a merit system that allowed blacks to get a foot in the door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

‘Pubs are black holes. People go in there and never come out again.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew when one of the black guys was being messed with. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was still purple, dark blue, and black, yet scarcely a minute remained to the long, quiet night. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t figure it out?” she flashed that famous smile, white teeth in the prettiest black face in Harlem, and disappeared into her hallway leaving me on the stoop. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

All that remained were the shadows of huts, rings of waxy charred black on the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Etienne soon arrived, wearing a beautiful black tuxedo and a brand-new eye patch. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Good massa” always heard just what he wanted to hear from these “house” and “yard” blacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frieda and I lag behind, staring at the patch of color surrounded by black. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Richard,’ the nun repeated more slowly, writing my name down in her black leather book. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the valley stood the black foundations of the western watch-tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

By “us” I knew she meant the other black people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced about and saw Mary’s shiny black purse lying atop his trousers on a chair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The reopening of schools led to an easing of government restrictions on black travel into white neighbourhoods, and I was able to visit the ranch for the first time in two months. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them were wearing white uniforms, with a different colored X marked on each of their backs and a number written in black above it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He hurled himself at the giant, but Polybotes swept his hand through the water, leaving an arc of black oily poison. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her black braids swung up into the air with her shoulders. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Boys are crowded around, so that all you can see is them purple shoes of hers and that tight, black designer skirt. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She argued that women—black and white, Southern and Northern—needed suffrage and all the rights and protections of citizenship. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I noticed that Dionysus was treading on air, his polished black shoes hovering an inch off the ground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I order a venti black coffee and leave twenty dollars in the tip jar. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ahead, where the black road twisted out of sight between black trees and gray sky, was the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Outside the Casa Rosada a black cat, a mechanical man, a Little Red Riding Hood, two tramps and four ancient Egyptians joined the already unwieldy group. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trusted them while Queenie praised and patted the black gelding, which Mama wouldn’t even look at. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Robb turned his head to look at her, she could see only black inside his visor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Six percent are black, and 12 percent are Asian. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The other was of his short black hair and how it felt rough and soft at the same time, like crushed velvet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He returned with a thick stack of paper with a black spiral binding. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

John F. Kennedy gave me tremendous hope for a different future for black people in Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

People of goodwill have been unwilling to see black and brown men, in their humanness, as entitled to the same care, compassion, and concern that would be extended to one’s friends, neighbors, or loved ones. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the boys walked to school, and Baba’s black Mus­tang drew more than one envious look. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He has a shiny black coat with some brown areas around his face and legs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had a stomach so big that his thin black belt reminded me of the equator circling the globe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had gray and black skater shoes and dark blue socks with sharks swimming and swimming up around my ankles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He spoke to one of the black brothers, an old man with a twisted back and a tangled beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He gestured with his dagger at the men around them, all the hard cold men in black. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Turns out it was the night of the massacre when Trujillo had decreed that all black Haitians on our side of the island would be executed by dawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Severe dark eyes, lean face, short black beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is therefore possible, if a black hole is present, for the virtual particle with negative energy to fall into the black hole and become a real particle or antiparticle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifty-one she was still slender and pretty, with curly black hair, dark eyes, a large nose, a sparkling smile, and a bowlegged walk you could see a mile off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the projection screen was the faded-color image of a short man in a militarized black jumpsuit and huge, blue suede platforms. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Anderson had been singing in Washington ever since her high school days, appearing first at black churches and small black-operated theaters, and later before larger, racially mixed audiences in the auditoriums of black high schools. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

At the back of the store, behind a counter with an old-fashioned cash register, stood a middle-aged woman with olive skin, long black hair, rimless glasses, and a T-shirt that read: The Goddess Is Alive! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had been trying to organize a Kitchen Workers’ Union and had recently charged the camp’s chief steward, a Caucasian, with stealing sugar and meat from the warehouses to sell on the black market. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black smoke hadn't found its way down to the lower floors yet, but the air tasted gritty and poisonous. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Between the blazing white banks of the town stores, among the tree silences, a black tide flowed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate lots of fried catfish—some of it quite raw and some of it crispy black. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

State supporters began to leave the courtroom as the day went on, and the number of black people who were let into the room grew. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The three women, and their hall, were in the black mirror. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was pretty, with wild black hair and huge brown eyes she hid behind square frame glasses. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A wave of long black hair came tumbling down. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But if you’re black already, how can they be mad at you? Boom. I had her. But she ignored it. “Don’t ask me any more questions.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and Matthias’ body flooded with misery as he dragged himself over the black rocks to the dead and frozen land. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Seems he got run out of the Raptor Claw after word got around he’d been bested by a black girl with a shotgun during the riots...” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I scream into my teeth as the pain races through me, making everything go black for a moment. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was while working at the hotel that she met a young black man, George Myers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

By the second decade of the twentieth century, black America had come to a fork in the road and had to choose: accommodation to white supremacy or unyielding opposition to it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both were clad in boiled leather and mottled cloaks of brown and green and black, with branches, leaves, and brush sewn about their heads and shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They explained that they had to be careful about appearing to be too close to the Klan; blacks and liberals could make things very uncomfortable for them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And if heaven was on the other side of a black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to .get there, and they aren’t or people would notice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two black men stopped at the newsstand and bought a paper, then walked into a doorway. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, most stores buy yellow and black crepe paper and black paper cats, masks and papier-mâché pumpkins in October. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To ward off an aggressive black bear, Herrero suggests making a lot of noise, banging pots and pans together, throwing sticks and rocks, and “running at the bear.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He went from man to man, sniffing, before settling on the biggest, a faceless thing who clutched black iron in one hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

There are 19 cows in the field, 15 of which are black and white and 4 of which are brown and white. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

More blacks were pulled off streetcars and beaten; even larger mobs of whites roamed the streets, searching for victims. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Of black and gold those were, for the arms of House Greyjoy showed a golden kraken on a black field, and the banners and sails of their ships displayed the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A boy with curly black hair was cursing as he pounded the engine with a wrench. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was a wolf cub, gray and black, with eyes the color of dark amber. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The buzzer sounded, ten seconds to go, pop-pop, get in there and fight, black boy, pop- pop, you slave, and he drove in, pop-pop, hook, Rivera's eyes were wild, pop-pop and right cross. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paint a woman who steals hearts, but none of them fit the hole inside her empty, black chest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Rain poured from the black sky upon the empty door- yard, into the canal and among the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky above the black hills was sprinkled with stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She continued to step deliberately through the trees, and soon her brightness was striped by their thick black trunks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

With every atom of my being, I beg this in order that not only may this black boy live, but that we ourselves may not die!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brown, black, white, yellow, and all in between, nevertheless human. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the excelsior nest sat a squat, black metal machine with four blades on the front and a glass reservoir on the back into which my father poured kerosene. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A black top hat, white gloves, and a bouquet of colorful plastic flowers sat on the counter at his elbow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Yet even in his tattered black pajama shirt and pants, with his weathered face and sad eyes, I still see the brother I knew in Phnom Penh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When enemy planes were spotted, air-raid sirens wailed, warning Germans to black out their windows. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But what always struck me about black folks was that every Sunday they’d get dressed up so clean for church I wouldn’t recognize them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Boaz—a black Arabian and presumably Silver Star’s counterpart—remains tethered, and he’s clearly unhappy about it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I noticed that she was wearing a small black hat and she had black gloves on her hands and the gloves came nearly up to her elbows. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Several young black boys walked up to shake my hand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I saw her in a black gown and widow’s cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next day I was called to the principal’s office and there was my mom with a list of books written by and about black people. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Durham’s long history, few blacks of this social stratum had attended these meetings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The new tank changed the cyclotron’s reputation from a device whose efficient management was something of a black art, toward one that could be operated predictably under almost any condition. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Its beady black eyes and long, white bill kept me from noticing that it stood a good two feet off the ground. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I had nothing against anyone trying to promote independence and unity among black men, but they still were making it tough for Mr. Muhammad’s voice to be heard. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one, clad in orange and black with matching butterfly wings. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Francie looked at his well-polished black shoes and noticed how the cuffless trousers came down in the back over the heel, and what a nice break they made across his instep. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, the Klavern had been upset by the shocking news that Secretary of State Dean Rusk’s daughter had married a black man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pretty much everything is black and crumbly but that suits me fine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were no noses, no mouths, no ears, no chins—only the eyes were visible in each face, two small black eyes glinting malevolently through the hairs. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed very ordinary, wearing black pants and a button-down white shirt with a logo on the breast—WICKED spelled in blue capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

By and large, of course, poor and working-class blacks merely wanted what whites wanted: decent housing, available only in “white neighborhoods.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s an ad for a local art show with a white background and simple, black writing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But there was no dealing with the wizard, and slowly, again, the deadly Cliffs became a factor in the fight, only now it was the man in black who was being forced to doom. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Another tag trailed the figure of the black man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looks powerful in his black suit and leather briefcase. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But there was a part of me that feared black power very deeply for the obvious reason. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of black and white spectators had gathered about the court, and people were pointing at me and nodding their heads. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us are wearing matching black face masks tonight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I was about to hand the brush back to August, I saw a long, black, wavy hair threaded through the bristles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps for the first time, Werner sees in his teacher’s thinning blond hair, in his black nostrils, in his small, almost elfin ears, something pitiless and inhuman, something determined only to survive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He dressed like a great man—black broadcloth coat and trousers, wide black hat, overcoat with a velvet collar, ebony cane which he made to seem a sword. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow even this was part of the search—the physical beauty of the black body was all our beauty, historical and cultural, incarnate. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Victor turned around and looked into a pair of frightened black eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hana and all her friends wear black armbands to show their support for the Black people who’ve died when dealing with the police. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I will never forget how beautiful the earth appears from a great distance, floating silently and serenely like a blue and white marble against the pure black of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My black eyes have toned down, so now I just look tired, and I figure I’ll be good to go back to school next week. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Once again, white and black waiters went out on strike together. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Hillside welcomed all guests, and most particularly wanted to provide upwardly mobile blacks with the same kind of vacation experience their white counterparts enjoyed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A few embers were still glowing in the fireplace, turning all the armchairs into hunched black shadows. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Bad news: He was to have black against both Bronstein and Spassky. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A huge black rat squealed and leaped at Bigger’s trouser-leg and snagged it in his teeth, hanging on. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each pier had one or two houses at the end, their pilings thick and tall above the black water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The black-and-white picture was of a man who looked almost exactly like Miles, one eyebrow quirked up, wearing a black flight jacket and standing next to a WWII-era fighter plane. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Have you seen my prince? He’s about so tall with long black hair and tattoos on his shoulders. His name is Tane?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pictured bombs as black iron balls about the size of a sauerkraut kettle. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The priests walk slowly around the pyre, saying antique prayers, and the crowd, all in black, ignoring the black priests, keens. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

After it was done, Khrazz cut the heart from the black man, raised it above his head red and dripping, and took a bite from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He tells her how lovely she is with her curly black hair and the blue eyes of her mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Out the window I can see Mrs. Scatcherd and Mr. Curran on the platform talking to two men in suits and ties and black fedoras, with several policemen behind them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A handful of blocks north lay the huge wilderness that an early black settlement had been cleared out of to make room for the Dumping Grounds. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

His flesh was a ripe violet-blue, his lips and nails bluer still, so dark they were almost black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stumbled out into the black night, sobbing, my legs wobbly from fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, he countered with Capo Ferro which surprised the man in black, but he defended well, quickly shifting out of Agrippa and taking the attack himself, using the principles of Thibault. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She put on her dress shoes, the only pair of black shoes she owned. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some are wearing red scarves that are particularly vibrant against the black and white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was a tall, black, lean man with a long face, snow-white teeth, and a head of woolly white hair. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a black cloak and face covering isn’t exactly the best disguise. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

People poured out of the building; many stared for a moment at the black man cowering in the street and then averted their gaze. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She’ll walk in through the door and I will turn, wearing black as a painter should, looking successful, holding a glass of only moderately bad wine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat dripping down his face, covered in soot foot to crown, blacker than an African devil. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The long immersion had puckered and bleached their skin, so that in the relatively low light of the nursery their freckles appeared black. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was taller and thinner, and she looked very adult in her slim, black dress. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spread my fingers and my hand looked like a yellowbacks bumblebee, bright yellow with black stripes. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Local South African music was big, but black American music was what people were desperate for, hip-hop and R&B. Jagged Edge was huge. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So I went with black jeans, a black T-shirt, a black jean jacket, and black sneakers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was dizzy when he stood, and he rubbed his head behind his ear, where the man in black had struck him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Adam drew his finger slowly around his black ribbon hatband. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Even the blacks who were most apprehensive about him couldn’t help but respect his commitment and courage.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black eyes, black hair almost over his eyes, a little less than middle for height, a little less than middle for weight, sort of middle for everything else. already know.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Little figures black against the snow and the fire came tottering or running from it, and witches flew down to help drag them away from the flames. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It carried the black and acrid smell of coal—and something else, a chemical smell, maybe something they added to make the fires burn hotter. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Arson, too, was a growing problem, as blacks, still unable to obtain justice in the white man’s courts, torched property belonging to their victimizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This black box of genetics was pried open, almost accidentally, by an unlikely scientist working on an unlikely organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her black hair strung across her face like a wet net. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes are like black pools, the pupils dilated so that the blue irises have all but vanished. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

By the end of the night, two black men were dead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The dwarf could see them basking in the sun, brown and black hummocks with jagged ridges down the center of their shells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sniffed around, wrinkling his facile nose at the unfamiliar smell, then reached out a long curved black paw and tapped the white head. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trailing behind a group of girls, carrying our spare set of black pajama clothes in our hands, we walk to the river for our first wash. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole fizzy-lifting drinks, so you get NOTHING! You lose! Good day, sir!” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Why, every day, the black African heads of state should be receiving direct accounts of the latest developments in the American black man’s straggles—instead of the U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone, including the black shirts, turned to stare at her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her skin was black and this was how the world treated black people. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Her black hair is piled high and knotted on top of her head. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in black and her headscarf crossed over her face so that only her bright eyes shone. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were checking out the black wall of the lounge, which was plastered with spray-painted tags. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Even the stars above him seemed to go black. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Starting at the neckline and seeping down like ink, the green silk is turning a murky, midnight black. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The kings and queens curl up, turn black, and disappear. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their black profiles stood out in silhouette against the setting light Lancelot’s, the old ugly man’s, was the outline of a gargoyle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was closed fast, two great wooden gates, painted black and bound and studded with iron, closed upon each other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The history of colored people in South Africa is, in this respect, worse than the history of black people in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a photograph of Khalil’s black hairbrush, the one he used in the car. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I saw myself release Dismay to the black water. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Virginia’s governor, Lindsay Almond capitulated in the fight over schools, reopening Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Front Royal schools in 1959 and inching toward integration: eighty-six black students in those districts now attended school with whites. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The past ten years had padded the curves of her hips some, and combed into her coal black hair a few streaks of cinder gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Viewed in this light, the frantic accusations of genocide by poor blacks in the early years of the War on Drugs seem less paranoid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its wet markings glowed brightly white and intensely black. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One was Brand, a short, black, morose bachelor; the other was Cooke, a tall, yellow, spectacled fellow who spent his spare time keeping track of world events through the Chicago Daily Tribune. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little dogs and big dogs are pulled and yanked—there’s no time for luxurious sniffing with the sky that black. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She could not leave his presence when he was there, nor remove her eyes from his face, which was something like Napoleon’s, with a lock of black hair failing across the forehead. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Wet, black hair hung in strings around her face. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He takes his top hat from its stand and puts it on her head, where it slides down and obscures her questioning eyes in a cage of black silk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s standing room only at St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic church on Hancock Street, and it’s a sea of all shades of brown people wearing either black or white. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dark and black and trackless where it crossed the open country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The zero of a black hole is a singularity, an open wound in the fabric of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a rumor among the Americans that Vietnamese wearing black clothing were Viet Cong, and those that wore white were loyal to South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was tall and thin with straight black hair, cut to her shoulders. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at his wet, black hair and the dark gray eyes which looked back mistrustfully from the mirror at him, looked at the marks on his coffee-colored skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Keep blacks out was the mantra of the Chicago Real Estate Board as blacks continued to pour into the city and push the boundaries of the Black Belt into white neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The streets were empty but of broken glass; the sky was black. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They are brown, his hair is black and a bit curly at the sides. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plants were too green, the sky too blue, the road too black, like a scar knifed into the landscape. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I have to ask because...well, it’s not just a white thing, if that makes sense. I’ve had people who weren’t black say creepy things to me, and I gotta protect myself.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It burns through my black hair as little beads of water collect around my hairline and on the curve of my upper lip. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poolroom was empty, save for a fat, black man who held a halfsmoked, unlit cigar in his mouth and leaned on the front counter. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What white kid could hate blacks after spending five minutes in the Beales’ house? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take “democratic” England—when 100,000 black West Indians got there, England stopped the black migration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

First come the title and some names, blacked out on the film with a crayon so we can’t read them, and then I see my mother. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world around us fades into black, as if I’d closed my eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then she’d have to be a Sicilian and kidnap little children and she didn’t want to do that, although drawing a black hand was fun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s proposal for a limited black citizenship and voting rights enraged the racist actor. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pod stared at the visitor's boots, lovely things of red- dyed leather ornamented with black scrollwork. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They placed it in the great cavern by the abyss, where the black air echoed to the sound of running water far below. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had heard of the Wisconsin Dells but was not prepared for the weird country sculptured by the Ice Age, a strange, gleaming country of water and carved rock, black and green. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mess of black curls, similar to mine, falls around her small face. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And I want to know about his talking devices, the supercool computers that help him talk and do really hard math problems, like finding black holes in space. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It had nearly black skin on top which was covered with brilliant orange spots, and it had, of course, been perfectly poached. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe the black smear off my face. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Down into pink-tiled bathrooms and among translucent, unformed babies with unseeing black spots for eyes, and dark braids that moved of their own accord, working their way along the sandy bottom of sleep like inchworms. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller knew that if whites considered Operation Breakthrough as an exclusively “black” organization, it would limit the group’s effectiveness. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her thick black hair was pulled back into a carefully curled ponytail that bounced when she walked. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to make eye contact with the black girl standing by the fireplace. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A backlash against blacks was clearly in force, but no consensus had yet been reached regarding what racial and social order would ultimately emerge from these turbulent times. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were several small black neighborhoods on the fringes of town, non-Levitt-built homes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The angry, frustrated soldiers might scare Sam Adams’s black handmaiden out of her wits. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a silver skull ring, a chain for a belt, and a black T-shirt with skull designs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A black hole takes up no space at all, but it still has mass. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even what little ground is visible from outside is black or white, painted or powdered, or treated with some other circus trick. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many blacks, having long been told to behave like second- class citizens—or else—simply obliged. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If we took one false step, we would fall into black, smelly water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As words from the Koran reverberated through the room, I thought of the old story of Baba wrestling a black bear in Baluchistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly white people have served enough notice of their hostility to any blacks in their families and neighborhoods. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face curved softly against the black of his eyelashes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They both had beautiful eyes anyway—Elizabeth’s were exotic, long and tilted, and Melanie’s were luxurious, velvet and ivory, fringed with black silk. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boycotts had been used before, as far back as 1832, when a national convention of free blacks meeting in Philadelphia initiated a boycott of goods made by slave labor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The persecuted laugh, and the black slave sings to his outraged soul beneath the whip. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At night, when there was a moon, I would drive our VW camper to a hyena den where there were one or two tiny black cubs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why there was so much fuss over his death, considering that he was a black man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A smear of light mud shaped like a handprint had dried on the side of the black leather, stopping where the wide splash of blue paint covered the top. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Here was one of the white man’s most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But today most of the American blacks who are successful as entertainers and as public figures are light. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The water was cold and almost black with vegetable material. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those blacks on streetcars may have thought they were safe as they pulled away from the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The tongue flickering like a warning, the black eyes watching her so carefully. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tiny green flecks burned around the black pupils of his hazel eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They went downstairs and stepped outside to find a pen of plump black chickens pecking heartily in straw. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Olga is a petite middle-aged woman with silky black hair that touches her hips and a simple white rosary strung around her neck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am all alone again, as it seems I always have been, and always will be, except for the woman in black, who I know will never leave. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Black leaders continued to nudge white society for small concessions while at the same time attempting to stifle the more urgent demands of a frustrated black poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One early morning, with Nailer and Nita both elbow deep in blood as they gutted black eels for a grub shack, he admitted what he’d been thinking. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They shine their long black flashlights into every space big enough to hide a kid about my size. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black storm-pattern blanket was spread open across the gray flagstone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She saw her son come running, his uncle after him with a black bag in his hand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hot, hot copy, both in the white and the black press. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like her husband, Ida preached neither Democrat nor Republican but encouraged blacks to “vote for the advantage of ourselves and our race.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two fought for the hearts and minds of black America—and, at least for Washington, for the blessings of white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in a single, swift motion, she jumped into the black water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When they had cooled she dressed the three dolls with scraps of cloth which she took from her black bag. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen days later, the Georgia Supreme Court reversed itself, holding that the fact that 98.4 percent of the defendants selected to receive life sentences for repeat drug offenses were black required no justification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the Palace the boys sat restlessly watching the black hands of the alarm clock. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in pajamas, and he wore his small black skullcap. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

His eyelashes are so black they look wet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She gathered herself and resumed her escape through the black water. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The great hall was full of people in black. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A tall boy, still thin from growing, two dark brows reaching for a mess of black and curling hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was little positive published about blacks except in the black press. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“They are very handsome, I suppose, those Mexican women; very picturesque, with their black eyes and their lace scarfs.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or in Russia, when Khrushchev was in power, he threatened to cancel the visas of black African students whose anti-discrimination demonstration said to the world, “Russia, too. . . .” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere below all that, I knew, were two long braids of hair, tied with crumbling black ribbons, and a wedding crown made of ship’s rope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, the mystery involves blacks, Pygmies, and Khoisan, whose distributions hint at past population upheavals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta went back to eating her seeds, and as she stopped glaring at it, the black streak chicken floated gently down. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the rain, at the skies that were getting closer and closer to black. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was waiting at the bottom of the stairs, and was now himself dressed in a black suit, similar to Shadow’s. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Explained the system of labelling—a T for the males, a circle for the females and for those who were destined to become ffeemartins a question mark, black on a white ground. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Doorman looks nervous enough to cry- black and gold fur and watery eyes. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I turned quickly and almost stumbled over two tremendous pigskin suitcases, strapped in black leather, just inside the doorway. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1867, at the dawn of the Reconstruction Era, no black man held political office in the South, yet three years later, at least 15 percent of all Southern elected officials were black. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We passed the black, twisted skeletons of streetcars. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Calista didn’t say anything about that, just stared out the window at the black of the subway tunnel passing by as we rode. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“And that living in the suburbs don’t make you any less black than living in the hood.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Ask him to give the cops the plate number and tell them that the driver of this vehicle, a black Civic, was acting suspi-ciously in the environs of Valedale Boulevard.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

It happens to so many thousands of black youth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Something passed her, all dressed in white, and vanished”—“A great black dog behind him”—“Three loud raps on the chamber door”—“A light in the churchyard just over his grave,” &c., &c. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those few black souls lucky enough to get work from Swift and the other meatpackers were good union men, treated as members of the butcher brotherhood. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Where can I buy some of this black powder?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the window I can see black clouds gathering. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They had no official uniforms, but wore helmets of various kinds from army surplus stores, motorcycle shops and hard-hat construction sites, each bearing a small silver decal with “Sheriff’s posse” spelled out in black letters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had made himself a black armband out of what looked like a rag dipped in boot polish, and his eyes were puffy, red, and swollen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Three enormous planes flew by, high up in the clouds, raining tiny black specks from their bellies. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Boxy black shoes, plus slides for the shower. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some whites had been upset earlier when four blacks ignored the invisible line, plopping themselves down on the sand as though it was nothing out of the ordinary. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Just before Thanksgiving, the first of the cold fronts from Canada finally reached us, and the trees abruptly dropped their leaves and turned black and skeletal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember that night—our last year—when that crazy Louise Hermanson busted in the room wearing that black brassiere she bought in Chicago?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The entrance of the cave sat about seventy feet down the cliff face - a circle of black in the chalky yellow rock like the hole of a giant pencil sharpener. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Pure sadness from a black woman with this gorgeous afro. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every hull was striped: black and yellow, pink and blue, green and white, purple and gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed that every black church on the peninsula had at least one member who worked out at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes shone like wet black jewels; the hoodie almost completely obscured her face. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Conservatives argued that, having welcomed blacks migrating from the South, these cities “were repaid with crime-ridden slums and black discontent.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He did not philosophize about the law or his responsibilities, but Tom noticed that he always maintained the same manner, no matter whether the prisoners were black or white or Mexican. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The black population of Odessa was quite small—about 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The color of my skin is beautiful,” he said, “like the black soil of Mother Africa.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sought to attract the widest possible sponsorship and invited some two hundred organizations — white, black, Indian, and Coloured — to send representatives to a planning conference at Tongaat, near Durban, in March of 1954. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lincoln—whose hat was still circled by a black mourning band in honor of his dead son—spoke for a couple of minutes, and delivered 250-odd words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

His black little eyes stared straight into mine, as if waiting for me to tell him something. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the book and read its title, written in gold gilt on a black bar imprinted on the front cover. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ranger wore the black of the Night’s Watch, but what if he was not a man at all? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I abandon Du Barry's instructions: the snowy skin, the black hair, the rosebud lips. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In her early fifties, she wore a powder-blue dress and stylish glasses, and her long black glossy hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In another she was standing in a line with three other girls; they were wearing what might have been prom dresses, and her black hair was tied above her head in an intricate knot-work. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As black as onyx, polished smooth, so the bone seemed to shimmer in the light of his torch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He included the bombings of black homes and businesses, teargassings, shootings, physical violence—all committed against black people between the months of March and September 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tears for every name of unarmed black men and women I know of who’ve been assaulted or murdered by the police are inked on the page. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The black brothers assured him that it was much stronger than it looked, but Tyrion's legs were cramping too badly for him to even contemplate the ascent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wore a white shirtwaist and black skirt that accentuated her trim figure, and she was seated beside a window, her hair candescent with sunlight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In Ento: the black eyes of the monstrous child as she plunged the knife into its belly. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, these rescue efforts gave way to black endorsement of harmful policies aimed at the urban poor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Our presence awoke in them no sense of shame whatever, for we blacks were not considered human anyway. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My second punch left him with a black eye that lingered for two weeks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if they assumed that as a black person, I was a speaker for all black people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not till I get to the very bottom that I find a loudly ticking black briefcase, a white Post-it Note on top with Quinton’s handwriting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was wrapped in black cellophane paper, as well, and he had lodged it in the refrigerator, beneath bottles of Fanta. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The extra gravitational attraction of such a large number of black holes could explain why our galaxy rotates at the rate it does: the mass of the visible stars is insufficient to account for this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I thought of maleness, I thought of whites with political or economic power and blacks with muscle. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the most recent ones, Aditya had begun to fall in love with a girl with wild, curly black hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It fed upon Picassos and Matisses in the upper halls, like delicacies, baking off the oily flesh, tenderly crisping the canvases into black shavings. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have recognized him even if he had shaved his head of thick, wavy black hair—if he had tattooed his cheeks, or pierced his long, straight nose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I grab a dry rag and take that black cake out the door, set it down on the concrete step. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He wore black mountain- climbing pants and a bronze breastplate strapped over an orange camp T-shirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He set it down on his desk and took his seat behind it, flicking back the wide sleeves of his black robe. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Directly beneath the familiar black dragon painting there was an ornate crystal pedestal on which rested a gold chalice encrusted with tiny jewels. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ever since Independence we’d heard stories of violence between blacks and whites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One of the other guys, the one who was either a little fat or worked out too much, came in behind Kevin, sporting pleated khaki pants and a short-sleeve black polo shirt. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The horses continue circling, with the white horses passing the black horses and then the black horses passing the white horses, with the end result always being alternating colors. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She opened the cabinet and pulled out a small black box with a combination lock on it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ramsay Bolton stood beneath them, clad in high boots of soft grey leather and a black velvet doublet slashed with pink silk and glittering with garnet teardrops. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bartender told me Dad had gone to the Pub, which was a notch below the Howdy House—almost pitch black, with a sticky bar top and no food at all. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A pool of frozen blood, glistening red and black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I want to cry when I see her nudged into the back seat of their black car. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everything—the people’s heads, the straining dogs, the roofs of the boxcars—was in black silhouette against the sickly light. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mom clicks the button again, and it goes back to black with a gentle zapping sound. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized Duncan from B-block—a short black man with dreads who apparently was a perpetrator in a recent fracas in the B- block yard in which officers had been injured. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black eyes and purple jaw were accentuated by an arrangement of scratch marks on her forehead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, studies indicate that people become increasingly harsh when a criminal suspect is darker and more “stereotypically black”; they are more lenient when the accused is lighter and appears more stereotypically white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Painted on the walls were crude pictures of black cattle marching downward. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the South, where the number of blacks was so much larger, it was unthinkable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Here she’d been dressed in black like a grownup young lady, and she didn’t know the first thing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked to me as though the whole black community was standing around doing nothing while the white people were taking advantage of us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To create one nation has proved to be a hideously difficult task; there is certainly no need now to create two, one black and one white. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Her shadow behind fell black and headlong down the stairs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

As he sat at the counter of the diner waiting for Petey, nervously drumming his fingers, the black mare huge and agitated at her tether outside, Finn wondered what the hell he’d been thinking. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

On offense black athletes started at flanker, split end, and fullback. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the edge of the water were a pair of waystones, their surfaces silver against the black of the sky, the black of the water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t even know they had black people in Colorado,” Tiara said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He saw a large black speck—maybe a buzzard—circling up from the fire. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s, Knighthood had been handled by an able conditioner named Bob Rowe, one of only a handful of black horsemen training in that era. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dressed in his church clothes—black pants and a button-down shirt, a brown belt, his cowboy boots—and walked into store after store, asking for applications. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Thick black doors shine bright with the House of Inventors emblem—a chrysanthemum growing out of a stacked tower of cogs and gears. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Her black button eyes seemed as if they had been freshly polished. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

No hand had checked their progress, and they had gone native now, rearing to monster height without a bloom, black and ugly as the nameless parasites that grew beside them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

You can sit and not feel like you’re going to get stuck in the hot black tar. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Whites wanted to force blacks to join the union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His mares would bear triplets, his hens laid twice a day, and his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except through the use of black magic. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Those who stayed in Chicago, setting up house and looking for work, found that only the lowest jobs were open to blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I felt afraid as I pushed through crowds of white people, but my fright left when I entered my neighborhood and saw smiling black faces. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With little pleased nods of his handsome black head he was parading up and down the inside of the bathtub. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dark and the street was deserted, no cars or people, and Linda wore a pink dress and shiny black shoes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flames crawled up the walls and ceiling, casting off billowing black smoke and the whip of sparks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She opened up the purse and pulled out a full bottle of nail polish so darkly red it was almost black. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A black woman, wiping her hands upon her apron, was dose at his heels. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a black overcoat, and in her lap she held, with gnarled, colorless hands, a crisp white bag from the drugstore. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My inclination was to spend the night in the Cape Flats, the bustling black and Coloured townships of Cape Town, in order to show my solidarity with the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were black people and they were buying papers to read about how the white folks were trying to track him to earth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The crown of golden roses girded his temples, jade stag's head rising over his forehead, long black hair spilling out beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That had nothing to do with her being white and your being black.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He passed the young man and was cut off again by another young man, also with black hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A black eye from a Skull in a foul mood. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And Edward was staring at me curiously, that same, familiar edge of frustration even more distinct now in his black eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the center of the room the dwarf stood with his servants, and four strangers in the black of the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be dead, to turn into the rain, my eyes melt into the ground like two black snails. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was tan and wore a black bikini with a string around the neck. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Consistent with earlier studies, participants were more likely to mistake a black target as armed when he was not and mistake a white target as unarmed when in fact he was armed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His hair was like two black ropes, and round his arm was a lovely silver bracelet with blue stones in it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moderate black leaders quickly distanced themselves from him, saying it was crucial the focus remain solely on civil rights. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Soon, we’ve settled in a karaoke bar in the heart of the Roppongi district, with men in black suits guarding every entrance and exit. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had often been told that police dogs ate black people when given the order by white people— were they eating people this time? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two feet in any direction from the headlights was black night. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His black eyes meet mine, and his description of himself and his kindred fades from my mind like a dream upon waking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He could do nothing but nurse his resentment, so nurse it he did, his mood growing blacker by the hour at each insult to his person. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It’s coming from the mouth of a small, crested black bird perched on a branch about ten feet over my head. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke in veiled attacks about his mediation of talks surrounding the black boycotts of Korean businesses across the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guy no older than twenty-five with floppy black hair plops down in front of me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She saw her parents in the circle of light created by the streetlamp, dead in the grass with the blood pooling black beneath them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He lived during the Jim Crow era—when black men were considered free, but were barred from voting in elections, living where they wanted, or getting the same education or services as whites. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But at black church I would sit there for what felt like an eternity, trying to figure out why time moved so slowly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By reason of the walls and pavements of white marble the people used to wear black garments; it was the glare of the marble that made the monks wear black. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They're having a march, another one, a chance for rows of them to peacock through the streets in their helmets and black boots. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On a scrap of fabric, someone—Chubs?—had sewn a perfect black square. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were no lights over France; it was as blacked out as Britain. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The palms of the gloves were brown and the backs were black. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1910, the last census before World War I recorded that 90 percent of the nation’s blacks were living in the South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in knee-length jeans, a black turtleneck pullover, and socks and loafers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The group that gained the most from having a divided black community, of course, was the ruling class of Durham’s leading white families. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tia is kind of big and imposing and her thick black eyebrows have scared me since childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few politicians will leap at the opportunity to support black people labeled criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I just looked at her—in the black clothes, with the black nail polish and silver studs in her eyebrow. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Dorothea and I know a lot of black people. There are a lot of black people in show business.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caggo Corpsekiller the men were calling him now, though not to his face; he was quick to anger, and that curved black sword of his was as nasty as its owner. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They passed the last streetlight on the very edge of Salinas, and blackness lay ahead of them and the road was unpaved and sticky with black ’dobe mud. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The flames quivered weakly and were smothered by a black roll of smoke. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Members staged plays, sponsored sports teams and sewing circles, and taught courses in black history and current events. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two enormous black Dumpsters came into focus out of the corner of my eye, and it was only then that I realized we were in an alley, and we were alone. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The man in black had gained another hundred feet. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was holding a small, black skullcap in her hand. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were standing on the edge of a giant hole—a hole filled with the black despair of nothingness. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not three feet from Frightful, seven little black Darwin cactus finches were busily gleaning food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It looked like a cross between a vampire pig and a black bear—an absolutely massive animal with thick, matted fur and teeth that extended below its mouth. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Even in the black media—which is generally more willing to raise and tackle issues related to criminal justice—an eerie silence can often be found. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Stepping back then, folding his arms, smugging it up just enough, standing there in his white skin, gazing nonchalantly about, six-blocks-deep in the heart of the black side: “Guess that makes me badder than you.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I eye the narrow cot, the chair, the cold hearth, the ominous black bureau, the hooks on the wall—for torture, I assumed. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Many became enamoured of the Darkness and the black arts; some were given over wholly to idleness and ease, and some fought among themselves, until they were conquered in their weakness by the wild men. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In one particularly cruel case, Klansmen shot a black woman and her five children, finishing off one of the children by stomping him to death. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he got to decide what was black and what was white. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He caught a glimpse of a black squirrel moving through the snow-covered branches of an oak, and paused to study the silvery web of an empress spider. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her family was rich and she was very refined—Lily was into books and opera— and we had black husbands, so we had that in common. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a peach shirt under a baggy indigo sweater, black drainpipes, one of those studded belts that sags loose off your hips, and winkle-pickers with white tube socks, like everyone's wearing recently. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My clothes were also burnt from the sun and wear, a mottled brown from their original tones of black. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His hand moved to a big black metal calculator. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had pale eyebrows and a ton of black hair, with a big wine stain covering the skin around his right eye and beyond, like a pirate’s patch. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The eyes had been covered by a torn piece of cloth, like a blindfold, and the mouth was stuffed with a black stone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Mixing them like that, during school and church and everything, they end up white and black get together and marry and all. . . I just can’t see the sense in it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As far as you could see, it was a graveyard of black, soaring trunks. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her eyes welled with tears that began streaming down her face, mixing with her makeup to make black streaks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She said she had never touched a black person. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I get better, I ride to school with Miss Larsen in the black car. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Four horseheads proclaimed the four Ryswells of the Rills— one grey, one black, one gold, one brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A sea of faces spread out in front of me, mostly black, but also a number of white, carrying signs and cheering for Bucky’s release. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the blacks would not be denied and swung themselves onto the train at the very last second as it pulled out of town. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As her mama tears touched their black fur, the cubs shriveled and shrank. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

While Washington law required separate public schools for black students and white students, recreational facilities and auditoriums often were available to interracial groups after school hours. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In Harlem the precise accents of northern-born blacks mixed with the slow drawls of recent southern immigrants and the lilting accents from the islands. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her other mother stared at her, black buttons unblinking. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Out of breath, I rushed inside, picked up the heavy black receiver, and put it to my ear. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Marching along the crest, they could see back to the Thneytown Road and the rows of tents, the hospitals, the endless black rows of more cannon, wagon trains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had been a compatible, attractive, and charming couple, making the rounds of the black community’s fall galas, debutante balls, picnics, and fundraisers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The black shape went into the drawing room, and Coraline followed it a little nervously. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“No, Captain,” the black man answered in the Common Tongue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As a boy, I often found Mommy’s ease among black people surprising. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had risen and was whipping up the snow in frozen imitations of dust devils, but the night sky was clear and black, with thousands of stars spread in unfamiliar constellations overhead. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

To me it seemed he had come expressly to reveal some previously hidden truth about what we black people can accomplish; a truth on which to focus my life, hopes and dreams. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She caught the mingled odors of incense, candle wax, flowers, and the good black cloth and shaving lotion of the priest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is pitch black in the morning when I set off down the mountain for the school bus, leaving Ob behind, watching me out the picture window. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alvarez saw black clusters of antiaircraft flak bursting all around his plane. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then, when he was quite sure the man in black would not go to his maker embarrassed, Fezzik locked his arms tight around. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’s back at the sink, stretching a black rubber hose from the faucet to the dishwasher. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Or they might place their fresh-baked cookies in tins elaborately decorated in the Permian colors of black and white. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The public symbols and constant reminders of black subjugation were supported by whites across the political spectrum, though the plight of poor whites remained largely unchanged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

More importantly, I began to see more and more black people on that screen, and I realized they seemed contented, confident, rich, and free. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A typical black child and white child from the same socioeconomic background, however, have the same abilities in math and reading upon entering kindergarten. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I saw two black policemen breaking down a door at the far end of the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm sure she wouldn’t have appreciated Vonetta sprinkling “black” into her poem like pepper, but the crowd loved it, and we went along, following Vonetta’s lead, throwing in the word black as she had. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

DC’s black community was the largest and wealthiest in the nation and included businessmen, lawyers, teachers, and ministers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Accented by bright gold earrings, her black dress and two-tone fingernails made her look much younger than she was. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even at a place like Amsterdam Heights, as a black girl who isn’t a size 4, I stand out. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It takes energy to be the only black person in a lecture hall or one of a few nonwhite people trying out for a play or joining an intramural team. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was carved in black wood, with a canopy of angels in relief and a few scraps of red brocade that were frayed with age. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the foreground showed a heart, a black heart surrounded by red flames. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in her black Assassin’s garb, with frost still clinging to her dark hair. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The security teams have taken out flashlights, and thin rays of light float around the arena, cutting through the black. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One was a thin girl in a black bathing suit who was having a lot of trouble putting up an orange umbrella at Jones Beach, circa 1936. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I had watched them grow, had tried to protect them, sometimes in vain, but always unhesitatingly, from the harsh elements of black life—violence, hate, poverty, hunger, ignorance, suffering, death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All I’ll say is that they hire black folk for porter positions. They like strong boys that can dress sharp and talk right. Something for you to keep in mind,” Lewis said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was at the Nikitsu Shrine when the black rain started falling from the sky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His black curls flopped into his eyes, and his other arm sported a purple cast. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The camp crematorium belched black smoke all day and all night. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He saw only eyes and mouths and fists—wild eyes and half-closed eyes, wet, loose mouths and clenched ones, black fists and white. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He perks his head up and pushes his black hair from his eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she wrapped the towel around her torso, up by her armpits the way girls do, and ran a small black comb through her hair. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Crowell was different from the other black women who lived in my neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her pupils are huge black caves where bats live. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She’s the only female student at Blackcliff; in the black, close-fitting fatigues all students wear, her strong, slender form has always drawn admiring glances. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Rickon's big black wolf was so wild he even frightened Bran at times. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The black brotherhood arose in a cloud, but the big one on the pony’s head was too late. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It surrounded an impossibly tall person cloaked in black and wearing a white eyeless mask. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anger rises in me again like black water, but I stop suddenly. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The black telephone rang, but he didn’t jump up to answer it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He has his dress shirt on, the black one with blue stripes, and his fancy trousers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So would just about every person in the state of Texas, where attitudes on the subject became quickly defined on the basis of whether you were black or white. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Lupita’s surprise, it was not black at all, but dusty white. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He remembered a rotund black man, with a bald head and a crisp blue uniform, watching over him on the train, bringing him sandwiches, and tucking him into his berth at night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At intervals, diamonds of black stone were inlaid in the road, polished until they sparkled in the sunlight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Despite being an urban black girl, she dressed like a preppy out of central casting, wearing saddle shoes and pink sweaters and somehow managing to pull off the look. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was curious that when he was in one of these black passions he seemed to pass out of human life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the pass office I was interrogated by a young black man in a checkered suit who appeared to enjoy the job he was doing: putting his own folks through hell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was massive, bulkier than the spirits in the club, and its shimmering darkness seemed to churn endlessly like black lava. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The man beside him was no beauty either; hulking, black-browed, he had a flat nose, heavy jowls dark with stubble, small black close-set eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the karate room Samira was talking to Ms. Platt in the far corner, over by the black pads we used for kicking practice. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the dungeon was a long table, also covered in black velvet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

On her feet were strapped tiny black heels such as the dancers had worn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I was impressed with this response, but said that the idea of “group rights” did more to increase black fears than allay white ones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tall black boy recited a long, funny piece of doggerel, replete with filth, describing the physiological relations between men and women, and I memorized it word for word after having heard it but once. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had black hair and needed a haircut and shoes and socks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When demand for steel increased during World War I, streams of white workers moved into the nearby town of Dundalk, and Bethlehem Steel’s housing barracks for black workers quickly overflowed, pushing them into Turner Station. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After the big “may God continue to bless America” finale, Laura pressed a button and the screen went black. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I spun around, heart in my throat, as I caught a glimpse of a dark shape falling from the sky, feathers fluttering down like black snow. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They didn’t deserve to be called black, because they weren’t. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pendanski had two black eyes and a bandage over his nose. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He had a pair of beautiful black eyes that looked out at the world with an old man’s gaze. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My thinking is black,” she said, uncharacteristically glum. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A black weariness fell on Lee, a hopelessness that pressed his shoulders down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door of the cabin burst open then, and the shortest, skinniest black woman Polly had ever seen pushed her way through the door. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In poor urban neighborhoods across the United States, black and brown boys routinely have multiple encounters with the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Despite the weather, Fred was wearing a tan sports coat over a black T-shirt. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Kansas voters did not face a choice between voting rights for black men or white women; both groups could have won the right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My cheeks grow warm again, and somewhere deep beneath the layers of black skin, I can feel them blush pink. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wet my black hair and combed it. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will the blue fade to black, leaving me in total darkness? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And no doctor ever spoke to the frightened little black girl who trembled in the chair beside the dying woman. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Too many black marks could sully a person’s reputation and even prevent a promotion at work. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nearby torchlight turns his black hair to bronze. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They cut my black hair with rusty scissors and mixed the hair with the blood of bats. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black sea, drop their nets, and, holding their lanterns over the water, they would approximate the moon. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Biased police practices are also nothing new, a recurring theme of African American experience since blacks were targeted by the police as suspected runaway slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Within the box she saw the scroll and a black velvet pouch. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was dark with storm clouds and the sea was black. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

At last they loaded the deep-sea lead, sounded—and brought up black mud! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I brought a black boy into our living room, Ma might shatter altogether. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They possessed the academic know-how, they possessed the technical and the scientific skills that could help to lead their mass of poor, black brothers out of our condition. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the particular spectral lines observed are often characteristic of very thin, diffuse gas, and not the astonishingly high density that must prevail near black holes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black patch that covered his right eye looked like a huge skin mole. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She stomped her own shiny black shoes against the floor, and Mom gave a startled laugh. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Before, a binding agent had solved the problem with black powder, and melting had produced our reliable rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have a pretty silver bracelet with onyx inlay from Evie, and a black silk teddy and matching knickers from Tom, and I can’t stop smiling. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the distance, he could just make out a jutting promontory of ice and the blessed black slash of a dark gravel shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their pressed smart-fitting uniforms, their polished black boots, their confident eyes filled her with that hollowness that came with having been robbed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We blacks haven’t the slightest desire to drive you back into the sea,” I said, measuring each word carefully. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Houses or barns or under the bank of a roadside ditch with the blankets pulled over their heads and the noon sky black as the cellars of hell. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He took his dark suit out of the clothespress and laid it over the back of a chair, and he put a white shirt and a black tie on the seat of the chair. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brain busters’ kids were supposed to come out on top in a race like this, even if the brain buster was a woman, or black, or both. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were few black people in the area, but at my age, which was probably five, I was not really aware of racial differences. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually the black gloom was broken by a bright white burst, and I realized we were passing the lighthouse at Alligator Reef. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

So if we could determine how many primordial black holes there are now, we would learn a lot about the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had grown and was tucked underneath a faded black baseball cap. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For a second, I thought something rustling the grass might’a been him, but it was just a little black squirrel. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Since there was no Catholic church in Medallion then, she joined the most conservative black church. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were looking at her with their black button eyes. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But the truth of the matter was that I really did not know what being “black” meant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ninety-five percent of respondents pictured a black drug user, while only 5 percent imagined other racial groups. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The black heap convulses and then sinks down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went from black to a charcoal grey, the rain like pebbles thrown against glass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For the most part he’s a miniature version of my mom with her same straight black hair and dark eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The celebration of the Bladder Feast was many colors—black, blue, purple, fire-red; but Kapugen s hand around hers was rose-colored and that was the color of her memory of the Feast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The largest of her three was shiny black, his scales slashed with streaks of vivid scarlet to match his wings and horns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Glancing round, they beheld a large furry shape—black with blotches of white, or was it white with blotches of black? Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

One cocky-looking guy on a glossy black bat actually lay in a reclining position, propping up his head with one hand. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girls chuckled at the stuffed wolverine’s frozen smile, the red-tailed hawk caught mid-dive, and the lumbering black bear that charged the window. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman, dressed in a black skirt and a wool coat with shawls, leans against Ben, her finger pointing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wrangler wore a Stetson hat on his greasy hair, an extra-large set of jeans, and a pair of black leather boots. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I draw twins with black hair all tangled together who have only just realized they look exactly the same. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s bent over the guitar, black hair falling in his eyes. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She riffled through it, turning each sheet first one way, then another, expecting illustrations, but all she saw were patterns, line after line like ribbons of black lace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The floor and ceiling are so black I’d think we were floating if I couldn’t see the metal rails that guide Lord Kensington through the center of the space. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I do remember the hospital and the black burns on my pale hands. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the people there were pretty cruel to me because I was a black person and they weren’t used to that, but others were very kind. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most blacks did not have the resources to get away to more sanitary conditions. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I hand- scratched to them how the white man’s society was responsible for the black man’s condition in this wilderness of North America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pour the wine,” said the man in black. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks would continue being suspicious of the motives of whites; and whites would continue being suspicious of the motives of blacks; blacks would continue hating whites; and whites would continue fearing blacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran hard across the muddy schoolyard through drifting clouds of thick black and gray and white dust that choked and blinded him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They crouched on the carpet, staring at me with large black eyes. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He had traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support black sanitation workers who were being treated unfairly in their jobs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Windy acts like we saved the last black rhino from extinction. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Cadillac passed small, smoke-filled clubs with loud music and black people spilling out of open doors and sometimes overflowing into the highway. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of black haze traveled back up the lines of fire, snuffing out the light and heat and covering Leo in darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She heard gunfire—and then she was falling into the black, into the cold, into the throat of Djel, into nothing at all. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was trying to figure out how I was going to get down the black stuff I had been handed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the black cross of reflections which dominated the picture could arise only from a helical structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Her tongue flicked blackly this way and that, and the man sighed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

White witnesses often refused to answer questions from a black attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outdoor path only goes so far—past twenty cages and a storage building—until it ends abruptly at a black iron fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He saw a pair of black boots next to him, and he followed them up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court ruled unanimously that segregation of the nation’s public schools violated the constitutional rights of black students—a landmark decision that would affect race relations across America. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, the darkness is black—only straight up a patch of gray and an occasional star. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Telescopes in space are the means for checking these shards and fragments of data that may be the spoor, the trail, of the legendary black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have always felt about this accusation that the black “leader” whom white men consider to be “responsible” is invariably the black “leader” who never gets any results. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took two of the larger black stones and they went to find a campsite, and here, too, there was the waiting for luck. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I asked my mother a thousand whispered questions about the silent, black, educated “uncle” and she always replied: “It’s something you can’t know. Now keep quiet and go play.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would speak together with Papa about the tragic lynchings of young black men and women, and other challenges afflicting the black community. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant I had to get the black line to Embankment and change onto the green line or take the black line to Leicester Square and change onto the blue line. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was quiet, watching the black thing in the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, when segregation laws were challenged and finally defeated, the benefit to one became a benefit for all; the integration of an institution by a single black implied an advance for the entire race. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I—” An inky black crept into the corner of her memory, and she struggled against it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His carpet is gray and his furniture is black. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t swallow the wafer but did that stop his mother from parading him around Limerick in his little black suit for The Collection? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The abuses that have followed from these policies—the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects—are the product of democratic will. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A flock of white pigeons flew out of the black cypress tree as Jody passed, and circled the tree and landed again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One or two gave Frodo a black look and departed muttering among themselves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“February your grandmother! I got it all down in black and white. An’ I tell you, no number—” “Oh, pack it in!” said the third man. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The tables were manned by white and black clerks, but they both acted the same. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she smiled, her teeth were black with decay. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He can’t explain where the conviction came from, or how it burned brightly enough to shine through the black uncertainty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bubbles popped, and thousands of tiny black spiders swelled forth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I just remember, in a flash, being in Mr. Ray’s big black car. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A little black head appeared at the far end of the basin, just out of the deep shadow of the rocks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It had four different- colored bands—black, brown, blue, and white—so you could change your watchband to match your outfit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adam Clayton Powell, the pastor of Abyssinian Baptist, had led a protest that resulted in more black people working in the stores on 125th Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The mine complex is a smoldering black mountain range behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court repeatedly upheld convictions of black defendants by all-white juries in situations where exclusion of black jurors was obvious. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He also knew that many black kids thought their easiest way out of the ghetto, perhaps their only way, was through sports. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were like the other blacks. You know how they love to steal.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was shorter and had some kind of blond highlights that, against the brown and with the black eyeliner she was wearing, made her look harder...but in a good way. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She stared into her gray eyes and tucked a strand of black hair behind her ear, summoning the words of her oath as if they were an incantation. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, no more than a handful of strikes are necessary in many cases to eliminate all or nearly all black jurors. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The eyebrows and mustache, the fierce wrinkles between the eyes, the face, all were the merest black webs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his black master’s robes, which was something of a rarity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She ended the game by drawing an outline of her hand on paper and filling it in with black crayon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he was upstairs changing into a flannel shirt, khakis, tennis socks, and tan leather hiking boots, she fixed black coffee in a thermos and some chicken salad sandwiches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news spread like pox through black communities: doctors were doing research on black people, lying to them, and watching them die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A black weekly in Richmond, Virginia, sang Durham’s praises even more fervently: Go to Durham...you need the inspiration. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for King, the city contended, blacks would be satisfied with things as they had always been. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He looks just like the photos of him on the Web—older white man with graying hair and bright black eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between flashes, the churning white water of the ships’ wakes was clearly visible against the black sea. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So in death, the gods had decreed that she would know no rest until her weeping watered the black earth of the Vale, where the men she had loved were buried. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then my black sleeping bag will turn from camouflage to trouble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He stood on the edge of the rimrock and looked down below: the canyons and valleys were thick powdery black; their variations of height and depth were marked by a thinner black color. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finn beat them off as best as he could, but they tore at her arms and dress, their black tongues flapping and flailing. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clifton walked around behind his desk and pointed to something on the wall—a small blue piece of paper in a square black frame. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And when Abdulrahman first witnessed the sardines circling in the black he could not believe the sight, the beauty of the undulating silver orb below the white and gold lantern light. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Just above her ankle is a tiny black circle the size of a cigarette burn. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge, a middle-aged, heavyset black woman wearing half-moon glasses, sits opposite, on a dais. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been two dozen of them standing against the black wall. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch, he got a small paint brush and a can of black enamel, and locked himself in the lavatory, where he painted the alphabet in code on the wall. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a hundred years, any sign of black progress in the South could trigger a white reaction that would invariably invoke Confederate symbols and talk of resistance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Apartheid was a police state, a system of surveillance and laws designed to keep black people under total control. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He scanned their faces frantically, but he didn't see any other kids his age, and certainly no girls with a bob of black hair and sharp black eyes. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The pressure in your inner ears drops so fast, you black out. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, he saw an enormous black mass coming at him and the train. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The electric illumination, the engulfments of dark wash and sounding black fell down, shutting in, forever. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything glowed strangely in shades of black, grey and white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s black hair was bound severely into a gleaming knot pinned to the back of her head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To be a black man is to be thought of as a criminal, and to be a black criminal is to be despicable—a social pariah. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He ran his hands through his black thinning hair streaked with gray. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She studied the black ring on his finger. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was Hannah who found the bent spoon black from steady cooking. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took me to a beauty salon, and we found a cheap wig—curly black synthetic hair. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We could no longer detect the city, the night was so black, so full of water and motion, so unsparing was the drench. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The women are tall, short, black like asphalt or caramel brown. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That sure as hell wasn’t why he had given up so much to come to Permian, to have a black kid come in and steal away his chance at glory. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In racially mixed open-air drug markets, black dealers were far more likely to be arrested than whites, even though white dealers were present and visible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But I do find a black Magic Marker, and I put that into my jacket pocket. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Even some of the black teachers treat us wrong. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a corner building with a white-arched entry framed with black lanterns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She's a little younger than him, skin slightly darker, long black hair woven in a tress. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you really are half black and half white.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They stumbled down the driveway to where the Ford was parked, a big black hulking shape in the dark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Rishi was pretty sure was a life-size doll sat in a tree like she was watching the proceedings, her lips, hair, and dress glowing from the black lights strung in the tree branches. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I’m delivering a telegram to South’s pub on a Saturday and Uncle Pa Keating is sitting there, all black as usual. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Daisy was not black as he was—her skin had been like the beautiful color of dark honey. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a small room with white curtains, a girl with long black hair climbed into bed with a book. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The horde joined him, falling about with merriment at their Chief’s black joke. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To the basilica and the cathedral and the painted store names in red and black. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The key to a black hole’s strange properties is the way it curves space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She imagined him, the boy who knew his grandmother was afraid of black men, now a man telling that story to the world to redeem himself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was the purest black you could imagine, Sanders said, the kind of clock-stopping black that God must’ve had in mind when he sat down to invent blackness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, a snow-white ermine, opened his black eyes sleepily and gazed around unafraid. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dress is plain black, with a V-neck that shows the tattoos on my collarbone, and goes down to my knees. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Robin had brown skin and black curly hair that was cut above her shoulders, which she pulled back with a wide headband. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Instantly the Rottweilers ceased barking and dropped to sitting positions, their black ears pricking up intently. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day she was working tomatoes on the black iron range, and her kitchen was hot enough to steam the calendars off the wall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nonsense,” said the swan snappily, putting its head into the water and giving them a frown with its black nares. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever, after a hundred ravens had boiled noisily off, one mammoth black beast remained, flapping around hysterically in the smoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curtis worked as a superintendent in an apartment house in Manhattan and he and Minnie were well-off compared to most black folks who came up from the South, because they lived rent-free. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of them the trees, silent, relinquished the dark color they had held, paled, grew transparent and stood white and ghastly against the black sky. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster she walked, until she had disappeared among the black trees. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wrapped both hands around the handle and ground my feet deep into the soft, black dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Stark, horrific images flickered in the darkened room, bursts of orange, gold, black, and smoky gray. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“One girl had black skin, one girl had white.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Thanks to desegregation, football was blacks’ claim to fame in Odessa, the thing they were known for, and there was no better proof than the Wall of Fame. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before Jon stood and shook it out, he knew what he had: the black cloak of a Sworn Brother of the Night's Watch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The black sheep in the manager’s family was named Oscar, and he had been in and out of reform school as a teenager and in and out of jail as a grown-up. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He told her that he and his wife had adopted a black child and their neighbors looked at them as though they had chosen to become martyrs for a dubious cause. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A black hole is a zero in the equations of general relativity; the energy of the vacuum is a zero in the mathematics of quantum theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Against the cold he had worn a hat, a gray felt Borsalino, with a red feather in the black band. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She performed at every major black college, often for several seasons in a row. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was from the blue-collar mechanics, model makers, and technicians, many of whom hailed from local “sundown towns” such as Poquoson, where blacks were not welcome, that they usually caught hell. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A black lieutenant took Charlie Company to the right of the hill we were supposed to hit and Lieutenant Gearhart took us to the left. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said that women had “stood with the black man for half a century” and should get the vote at the same time. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were at least two dozen figures in black; they moved in unison, with practiced ease. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Remembering chants of “Black brother, black brother,” my mouth goes dry. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“My grandmother says, ‘whites are for whites, Hispanics are for Hispanics, blacks are for blacks.’ Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When blacks insisted it was a "neutral site,” Butler responded peevishly, "There’s got to be a site somewhere in this county more neutral than that.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had even glimpsed one of them, striped brown, black, and red, and had judged that it was Bill. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The cookies she left for Clara never lasted long enough for Ophie to have one—whenever she found them the next day they were always sad, moldy black lumps of nothing. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Is it not picking me up because I’m black? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It boiled wildly and spread out all around until it had painted the entire sky a furious black. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bill’s girl friend—a beautiful black girl—served the customers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following her gaze Alice lifted the iron and saw what Violet saw: the black and smoking ship burned clear through the yoke. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some states, like Virginia, simply refused to comply: in 1936, a black student from Richmond named Alice Jackson Houston applied to the University of Virginia to study French, but she was denied admission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she had finished the garland, she laid it lightly upon Victor’s black curls. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wash made a point of knowing every pretty black girl within walking distance from Egypt Town—knowing in whatever sense he could get away with, biblical if possible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The walls are covered in diagrams, white spots and lines on black paper, framed maps of constellations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Wearing only his birthday suit, Roosevelt waded into the cold black water. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He had curly black hair and a goofy grin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crow was buttoned up in a black moth-eaten winter coat; a black shawl covered her head. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So her revolutionary lover has admitted you into the fold. We should be grateful. It used to be that he allowed only black lecturers in his house.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My dear chap, I tell you a libbard has black spots.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mirror, a shock of black eye and busted lip and wild hair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She pushed her hair over her shoulders, her fingers twisting through the curled black strands. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Streaks of blue light filled the black world behind the blindfold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was Kajak, later renamed Kayak II. Big, black, and gorgeous, he was barely halter broken and fought every attempt to handle him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore ripped black jeans and a battered aviator’s jacket that was several sizes too big, unzipped over a black shirt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A few drops were beginning to fall, making black spots on the stones where they landed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In Johannesburg, we toured the Apartheid Museum and danced and read books with young children at a community center in one of the black townships north of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t care how tough the convict, be he brainwashed black Christian, or a ‘ ‘devil’ ’ white Christian, neither of them is ready to hear anybody saying Jesus wasn’t white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monsters stood in the grass beside the road; black iron dragons with jewels for eyes, roaring griffins, manticores with their barbed tails poised to strike, and other beasts she could not name. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It curled around her face in big, black hooks, framing her large, black eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“A widow wears black for the rest of her life.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The rooms hidden behind the multitude of tents in Le Cirque des Rêves are a stark contrast to the black and white of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dye sold far too many black armbands for mourning and kept selling them right into November. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His short black hair is peppered with silver strands. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He personally knew several merchants who had been killed in their stores, all by blacks, and he knew of others who had shot or killed someone trying to rob them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, good girls only wore black shoes. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I wake, the rickrack of sky visible above the canopy has gone from cerulean to black. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Because if white people ever saw black people as human, they would see that slavery is unconscionable. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Forty-five minutes later, freshly showered and changed into Violet-approved denim and silk, I slip into my black satin shoes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The mountains still loomed up ominously on their left, but near at hand they could see the southward road, now bearing away from the black roots of the hills and slanting westwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

To keep blacks “in their place,” Klan tactics ranged from stealing black farmers’ horses, to threats of violence, to floggings, to outright murder. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their names all ended with Y. Her husband, Clarence Pastor, had black lung and sat on the front porch of their huge sagging house all day long, but he never smiled or waved at passersby. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Young black tennis players from all over the southern Transvaal were invited to take part in the clinic, but I was overlooked, though I was unarguably the best junior player in Alexandra. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clawed toward the swimming pool, trying hard not to black out. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He refused cow’s milk in any form or container and took to drinking black coffee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right, dear boy!” said Provis coming forward, with his little clasped black book, and then addressing himself to Herbert. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After everyone else walked away, two black girls stayed. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

His father, Brandon, had black hair the last time I saw him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The door to the building was painted black, and there was a hole where the knob should have been. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Pulling over to the curb, Ben peered into the interior of a red and black Rambler American that pulled alongside of him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in the toilet water he saw a grave black face. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Milo knows the black market. There’s no demand for cotton.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon he had passed, like a shadow into shadow, down the winding road, and behind him still the black ranks crossed the bridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I just brought it back from New Orleans this week,” Mr. Lew said, blowing on the black hairs of his chest that he could see through the V of his terry-cloth robe. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got it. No bank. They don’t give loans to black folks.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There had been no mailboxes earlier, but now they could see a long line of black and silver ones set atop poles on each side. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The bin had to be emptied, and I couldn’t operate the loader—a massive forklift with a telescopic arm and wide, black wheels that were taller than I was. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Gran passed a box lined in black velvet material with two shimmering blades to Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every newspaper and magazine writer and microphone I got close to: “No! We are black people here in America. Our religion is Islam. We are properly called ‘Muslims’!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curtains, as vehicles often had back then, obscured the windows, and the car, a Buick, resembled a black coffin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"We dramatized the shooting down of an unarmed black man." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had her handmaids char the horsemeat black, the dragons ripped at it eagerly, their heads striking like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I watched the news unfold on TV with my mom: Trayvon, a black high school student, was walking home from a convenience store when a man named George Zimmerman began following him, deeming him suspicious. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Vivi is wearing black jeans and a white shirt, mirrored sunglasses hiding her cat eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had been covered with an ugly black scab. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, few blacks even tried to register, and the local government remained securely in white hands. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know what it was called then, but I was impressed with the fact that the black fellows knew how to speak English really fast, and to the beat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Up the aisle, the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they saw a great black beast, shaped like a hound yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested on, and this hound was tearing the throat out of Sir Hugo Baskerville. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It has long been observed that black children, even before they set foot in a classroom, underperform their white counterparts. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I take a few deep breaths and run after him before he gets into his black BMW. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He’s let his facial hair grow in a little, and his hair is longer than I’ve ever seen it—dense enough to show me that it is brown, not black. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him he looked like a snowman in his puffy white coat and black hat, but of course I didn’t, because he is my teacher. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Then here's some advice," the same man continued, pointing a finger as black as the barrel of a gun at me. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on a rock, head back against a tree, arm black with streaked blood. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried hard to do what I believed a wife ought, things like washing white shirts and black socks separately in rooming-house sinks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Fender took the chair on my other side, smoothing her black skirt as she crossed her legs. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It's not finite and contained, like dealing in black market goods or finding Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a deep blue tinged with black around the petals. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As the buds on the trees turn to flowers, she raises her black eyebrows in surprise above her wide blue eyes and declares: bougainvillea, hibiscus, why, tree of heaven! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay like a blue- black shadow across his square jaw and die bony hollows of his cheeks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He was a small man and he covered the yard with a familiarity that would have allowed him to walk in the blackest darkness with the same certainty. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of thing Mary would shake her head about, laughing to keep from crying, with Thomas Byrdsong, a black engineer who had come to Langley in 1952. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, people said, Fazlullah arrived at the proceedings, galloping in on a black horse. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His attitude was like that of many Afrikaners who simply believed that black tribes had been killing each other since time immemorial. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I like it,” he said with sudden conviction, and hung the black scabbard from one of the mounting board’s pegs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Good Lord!’ says he, ‘Camilla, what can it signify so long as the poor bereaved little things are in black?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The hangars were staffed by a single Bokanovsky Group, and the men were twins, identically small, black and hideous. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a young woman with short black hair and bright-red lipstick, opens her purse and starts digging through it. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m not left-handed either,” said the man in black. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He bares his teeth to the black man; he tells the black man, to his face, that Southern whites never will accept phony ‘ ‘integration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those nights when I was invited to stay for dinner, I’d notice that my friend’s mother rang a small silver bell to tell the black woman when to bring in the food. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was irritated enough to tell him, but then the black phone rang. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The educated Englishman was our model; what we aspired to be were “black Englishmen,” as we were sometimes derisively called. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nails on all four fingers were black now, though not yet on his thumb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His shirt is a crisp white, his tie black and pristinely knotted. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The guy was even wearing one of those floppy black hats with the shiny brim. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A towering cliff of a black, basaltic rock cut off the sunlight, and the deep night shadow of an airless world surrounded them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

When I got there her windows were black. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strikebreakers at Argo confirmed in the immigrants’ minds that nothing had changed, that blacks could not be trusted. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An ambulance careened into the alley and raced toward us, its headlights blacked out so that only pinpricks of light shone through. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her image was replaced by another, of a black boy in a white shirt, tie and round-brimmed hat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Staring at the back of Mei-li’s head, her short green and black hair, I tried to think for the first time about the girl’s side of things when it came to Diego. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could tell he was concentrating on every stitch and loving every moment while this black, messy glob of together-yarn was being created. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Two black women ahead of me caught the attention of a rowdy group hanging outside a tavern door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Big Men of Durham learned an important lesson from the Populist affair: the best way to preserve the status quo was to keep blacks and whites fighting each other. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His left eye is black, closed almost to a squint by the swelling. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gaps in the siding revealed black tar paper, like decay between haphazard teeth. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What the—” “Just trust me. We need wax paper and scissors. And every black marker and pencil you can find.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a black velvet doublet and carried the Saxon harp on his back. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She had short black hair and sad eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

To his right there loomed against the westward stars a dark black shape. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tell them everything, from how security loves to target black and brown kids to how they pinned me to the ground. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Black, for example, knew what white was going to do, and vice versa, because black was Fischer and so was white. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother gave her hand a tender squeeze and pressed her lips against the girl’s black hair. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

White men walking arm in arm with black men, with no chains on either of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came to it, he stopped and stood before a high, black, iron picket fence, feeling constricted inside. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That hoodie went with me everywhere—it had a picture of a flexed bicep on the back in faded black ink. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Each day black boys between the ages of eight and twenty-five came to swim, draw, and read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interior of the car is black, the leather seats cool and slippery. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Lord Eddard, pardons," Desmond called out, opening the door a crack, "but there's a black brother here begging audience. He says the matter is urgent. I thought you would want to know." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sealskin kayak beside the door glowed as if the moon had been stretched across it and its graceful ribs shone black. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to become a full-time sculptor, his black hands stained from the pots he shapes and tries to sell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They gasped at the thin golden crown that settled in his black curls like eggs in a thrush’s nest. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

And so they come to Howard to be normal—and even more, to see how broad the black normal really is. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She threw open the door. ". . . the dragon . . ." And saw her brother Rhaegar, mounted on a stallion as black as his armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the streets of Windhoek, capital of newly independent Namibia, I saw black Herero people, black Ovambos, whites, and Namas, different again from both blacks and whites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This pattern is particularly striking given that less educated people tend to be more punitive and blacks on average are less educated than whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Huddled next to it was a dejected-looking boy in tattered jeans, a black shirt, and an old aviator jacket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The box is packed with bulky black rectangles—old movie tapes, I think. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The largest, blackest of the rats shook its head. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I know you lived in a world where black folks were hosed and beaten and jailed and killed while fighting for equal rights, but you still managed to be, like, dignified and everything. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sky is black with shimmers of glitter, and in the lake, there’s the sky’s rippling twin. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You black thing,” he says, putting up his big fist like he wants to slam me again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’d won significant majorities among blacks, whites, and Latinos; men and women; rich and poor; urban, suburban, and rural. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Buttercup turned back to the source of the sound and stared down as, in first light, the man in black struggled to remove his mask. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He got you so you don't trust your black intelligence? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joffrey said nothing, but a man strange to Arya, a tall knight with black hair and bum scars on his face, pushed forward in front of the prince. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Across the extreme tip of his middle finger, he saw now as he lifted that hand, a faint sixteenth of an inch of black tread where tyre had touched in passing. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Miss Hope, I am thirteen years old with black hair and something terrible is happening and I can’t tell anyone not even my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Estraven’s smile was an ugly split in a peeling, cracked brown mask, thatched with black fur and set with two flecks of black rock. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I held her with one hand, then she quit fighting and watched me, her eyes getting wide and black. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tightly knotted issues of housing and race have troubled generations of Americans, black and white, liberal and conservative. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds would have cleared off in a few hours, as they usually do, and the volcano would have emerged as a black shadow under the Milky Way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the boy opened his eyes and lifted his black brows and shrugged his shoulders and he said to his father, “You spoke of it first!” and then he turned away and went out. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The crow sped toward her, flying in a tight, fast twist, all black feathers and black beak and panicked cawing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what she could tell me about black, since she was probably an expert of color. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor and nurses had treated me in a natural way as though they had been dealing with blacks on a basis of equality all their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I slipped my hard black dress shoes off, glad I didn’t have any holes in my socks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ivanito asks her, “If the grass were black, would the world be different?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their small black eyes were full of secrets, and they would caw at him and peck his skin when they heard the songs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the other one, the one with the scary black thing over her eye, laughing softly and egging their mother on: “Neatness counts. You know what cleanliness is next to... “ Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful looked down on black ducks, mallards, bluewinged teals, plovers, godwits, yellowlegs, sandpipers—all the migrating birds that loved wetlands. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

After he had served these last two drinks, the governor sat down on a piano stool before a shiny black Steinway and plinked a single thoughtful note. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movement was dividing into two groups—one that made voting rights for black men the priority and another that demanded that female suffrage also be considered—and this disagreement changed the relationships among advocates. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So that was the way Set started—Set the god of evil and black magic. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The store owner was a gruff white man who, like many of the whites in St. Albans, was on his way out as we blacks began to move in. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town written on the back of the black Mary picture. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man laughed and slid the shiny black object out of his pocket. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were black people and they were a man and a lady with two children, a boy and a girl. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the black mass had lengthened and thickened, so that it kept at last to its braided pattern, and I didn’t have to yank my scalp off when I tried to comb it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinpricks of black crowded the edges of her vision. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When I remember seeing black men operating their own communications agencies, a thrill still runs up my spine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his black bag and took out a syringe. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not loose, but stuck down tight in moss and sand, and were black and shiny, as if they had been polished. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black streaks held the salt that Papa said had got mixed up with the rocks a jillion years ago. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gather into two dancing groups, one black, one white. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But he said, “Ever write about adoption? Nobody wants black babies in this country, and I don’t mean biracial, I mean black. Even the black families don’t want them.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A football helmet had nailed me and I blacked out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a tie, and his “client meeting” glasses, with the rectangular black frames. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But this time it wasn’t Mong, it was the skinny black bus driver. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When one agent was informed that the buyer was black and was asked if that made a difference, he said, “Just to be honest with you, it does.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ouija boards and black cats are way down the list of neuroses I suffer from. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She still wore her long black dress and rosary beads, but had no veil on her head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It resounded in the sanctuaries of First Baptist and Queen Street Baptist and Bethel AME and thousands of black churches around the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Cyrus took Adam to walk with him one late afternoon, and the black conclusions of all of his study and his thinking came out and flowed with a kind of thick terror over his son. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it was payday, all along the streets I met black men hurrying, hurrying, hurrying, the pittances of an eight days’ week in sweatshops jingling in their deep pockets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not make out the face of the mother who rested from the pains of birth, but I could see the old woman in black who tended the just-arrived, steaming baby. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the front row was a young girl of about thirteen, wearing black leggings and a silver tunic, her dark hair pulled back in a ponytail. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Stacy always wears a lot of glittery eye makeup, and her black hair is streaked with bright magenta highlights. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They are black sneakers with chrome eyelets for the laces. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the exact date because it was her fourteenth birthday, and her mother had recorded it in the black album her grandmother had started when she was born. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the windows of the bright yellow buses they used to bring kids in would be smeared with black paint. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. So, is Black Swan Green famous for black swans or green swans or something?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He swatted the burro across the rump with a black horsehair quirt, the kind the old Mexicans used to braid; dust from the burro’s hide flew up around Harley. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But what really sent a shiver down my back was the single black eye socket in the center of its skull. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Its black tongue flicked this way, that way, and its mailed head with its gold-rimmed black eyes moved from Lyra to Will and back again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pages and covers are black, tied together with something that looks like a big black shoelace; there’s a package of black triangles with glue on them to stick the photos in with. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he couldn’t help but notice four black vultures flying high above the forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

His eyes were just as shiny as they always had been, just as black. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair stood up and out to the sides in dry masses, black even though she was old. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like gigantic black serpents, peering out from their caves. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

A group of young blacks took one look at their injured comrade, blood streaming down his face, and ran off in the direction the bottle had come from. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the truth hit her: a spirit in silver and black, who’d fulfilled her mother’s wishes and ruined her life. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If you left a bowl with even a few grains of rice, you would find it covered with hungry flies so thick it looked like a living bowl of black bean soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The enormous phalanx of the Permian band, led by the ma-jorettes in their black velvet costumes, unfolded like the Russian army in a Victory Day parade in Moscow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand along the smooth black neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were flashing lights and men in black rubber coats holding canvas hoses with big jets of water coming out of them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the ablest of New York’s black hustlers took a liking to me, and knowing that I still was green by their terms, soon began in a paternal way to “straighten Red out.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep hold of the goblet in case he blacks out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Afterward he laced up his black wool breeches and followed the smells. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Miss Graham encouraged her to take typing so she might be helpful with some of her mistress’s work, a black man sat down next to Corinthians on the bus. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water flowed beneath them, black and bottomless. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned why the black girls in school didn't let their hair grow naturally, but instead always straightened or relaxed it. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Every other week one of the aunties from the Indian Association came over to help Mamma dye her roots black while Papa was at work. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her overhanging brow shades large black eyes that are outlined in white feathers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case,” said the man in black, “I challenge you to a battle of wits.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She’s clad in a loose black robe that softens the disdain on her masked face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a half-second pause as it studied him, baring a row of yellow teeth crammed into a gummy black mouth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Large black bugs had burrowed through some of the combs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward blackly across the pommel of the saddle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a follow-up meeting in Boston a few weeks later, the women’s rights advocates were distraught to learn that many abolitionists planned to focus only on winning the vote for black men. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“In his usual temper—cheerful for no reason you can tell. One of the louts at the tavern gave him a black eye. He’s proud of it. Says he’d always wanted one.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After apartheid fell, my father moved from Hillbrow to Yeoville, a formerly quiet, residential neighborhood that had transformed into this vibrant melting pot of black and white and every other hue. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Levi pulls the hood of his East Hamlin sweatshirt over his head, covering his curly black hair. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her elegant black dress and perfect posture, her matching black handkerchief to wipe her tears, her shoes with heels that punched holes in the grass. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

After meeting a black grammar school friend of my sister’s, I remember thinking that she wasn’t really ‘black.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he answered her loudly, hardening his heart, “Why should that one wear pearls with her skin as black as earth? Pearls are for fair women!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Joyce, can you give us the black perspective on The Color Purple?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gulped as the beam illuminated something shiny and black in the water, but upon closer scrutiny he saw that it wasn’t an alligator. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mance Rayder had been a man of the Night’s Watch once, before he changed his black cloak for one slashed with bright red silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was small and made of black polished wood that glowed darkly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hated by whites and being an organic part of the culture that hated him, the black man grew in turn to hate in himself that which others hated in him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only had time to erect a wall of black energy around the children before the hotel exploded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

CUT TO: Montage — Charlie getting primped and powdered and squeezed into a tight black dress. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As the movement escalated, it became clear that a sea change was occurring not just in America but within black America itself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For black youth, the experience of being “made black” often begins with the first police stop, interrogation, search, or arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The oars bit into the black water, and the boat shot ahead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was tawny, his eyes black and deep-set in a pale, arrogant face. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the cracks along the Wall go from red to grey to black, from streaks of fire to rivers of black ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The figure was fur-swathed, hooded, anonymous; but as it reached the deck, a golden monkey dæmon swung himself lightly up on the rail and glared around, his black eyes radiating malevolence. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think it would have been the same if the lady wasn’t white, or if Rashad wasn’t black?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It should be a relief, and for a minute it is—my mother wasn’t taken by the woman in black. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I saw the African features of my black brothers and sisters whom the devilish white man had brainwashed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned how black parents would advise their kids to keep their driver’s license somewhere accessible, so they wouldn’t have to dig deep for it, lest the cops think they were reaching for a gun. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The current sucked me under and slammed me into Peach and the black walnut. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he took up a brush and a tin of blacking, he said, “So the future’s looking bright for Molly.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His lean, dark face had a hungry look to it, and black hair fell down across his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there’s a breathing in the black, for these huge things that control the day and inhabit the night are living things and have presence, and perhaps feeling, and, somewhere in deep-down perception, perhaps communication. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only knew he was fourteen years old, black, and already six feet tall. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin grabs a black bag from the floor of the truck. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It looked like a huge gold, black, and gray bug hanging awkwardly in the black sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushed her hands into the pockets of her dressing gown, and she pulled out three marbles, a stone with a hole in it, the black key, and an empty snow globe. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

"Two of them wear the black," he told Robb as he worked. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Their portrayal in the press the next morning as unthinking hotheads bent on destroying Durham only confirmed black residents’ belief that they could not get a fair hearing in the city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then “Oakland” added, “When there’s Afros and black faces on the cover, I’ll buy one.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They’ll just see an angry black girl from the ghetto, acting like they expected me to act. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Simon looked at them both, saying nothing but nodding till his black hair flopped backwards and forwards: his face was glowing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her one consolation was that none of them had been on that black dot—the absolute center. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They decided to take a restrained approach, letting their presence at the meeting—a block of 100 black citizens—speak for them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The great black lid of sky cracked in six powdery blue chips, like a marvelous crackled glaze, and rushed down. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should not have said that, not her, not the first black, the first woman, to have been elected to a judgeship in the state. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee dampened his tongue in the black brew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a black night, a black ocean. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A’Leia’s are thick with black trim; Kelvin’s glasses are thin purple squares. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the parent of one of the few black students at a white school complained that his child was marginalized, C.P. heard a white working-class student point out that he also felt marginalized. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I put my pack down as a pillow and kicked off my hot, brand new shoes that turned my socks black in spots. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a stinging slap to all of the black workers who had hitched their fortunes to the white man’s union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As in Soweto, most of them were black. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dina’s talking about a stir-fry that Molly has thrown together for the three of them after returning from the library in Bar Harbor: tofu, red and green peppers, black beans, and zucchini. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Italian woman had a mass of tight black curls, starting at her forehead, that rose in a mountainous pompadour and cascaded down her back. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At her side trotted a little black dog as wiry and wizened as she. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She hesitates, her black marker hovering over the giant cup with uncertainty. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nationally, Virginia’s white teachers ranked in the bottom quarter in public school salaries, and their black counterparts might earn almost 50 percent less. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The side of his left hand was smeared with black ink from his pinkie to his wrist. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Santita Jackson, ebullient in a black dress with a plunging neckline, was my maid of honor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A wordless scream spilled out of my mouth and the world went black. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I had on jeans and a T-shirt, my usual outfit, and Horace wore his customary black suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Loomis had come back in, and he stood with one hand on my shoulder, his black face shining with pride and sweat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And poking out of each square was the black muzzle of a cannon. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Darkness began to materialize, a black coat for each of them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No way,” he said, rattling the paper and then jumping up at the black phone’s insistent ring, “and that’s final.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been nicknamed Nivea after an American face cream her mother used to rub on her, hoping the milky white applications would lighten her baby's black skin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing bright red linen pants, black sandals, and a white wraparound shirt. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All the houses in the neighborhood used to be expensive, but now they’re all covered with a layer of black soot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The other two, black T-shirts and black berets over Afros. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a pair of what looked to be her husband’s boots and a long black coat, Mrs. Bernoffski shuffled onto the front porch. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Cordelia turns to the back pages of the catalogue, where the pictures are in gray and black and there are crutches and trusses and prosthetic devices. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Zola goes away and returns later with the dolly that now has large round blue eyes with fluttery black lashes, a pink smalling mouth, and spots on her cheeks. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

As he strode through the second-floor hallway he saw them: two dogs, a black Labrador and a smaller mixed breed, in a cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Most of Africa’s blacks and whites depended on farming or herding, or both, for their living. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath a black velvety wrap peeked a pink dress that came to her knees. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z