Federico García Lorca - Black Quotes

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Black are the horses.
The horseshoes are black.
On the dark capes glisten stains of ink and of wax.
Their skulls are leaden, which is why they don't weep.
With their patent leather souls they come down the street.

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The New York dawn has four columns of mud and a hurricane of black doves that paddle in putrescent waters.

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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

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The world is a shoulder of dark meat (black flesh of an old mule). And the light is on the other side.

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New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

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