Black Powder Quotes

“What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed?
That they would chant your praises?
Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“You get one wish, the smoke said.
And so Yoth wished.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“If brains were black powder, the poor man couldn’t blow his nose.”
― Lucy Blue, The Princess and the Peonies