Chyna Black.
Song lyrics, Comin' from Where I'm From (2003)
“Just coffee. Black—like my soul.”
Simon and Clary, pg. 36
Variant: What do you want?"
"Just coffee. Black - like my soul.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Someone tell me why my road
is eternally strewn with ashes.”
Source: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 20, “The Sound of the World” (p. 282)
“That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.”
The fishermen (2015)
“Tell me, my soul, can this be death?”
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
On not caring about what other people think about her writing in “An Interview with Amulya Malladi” http://jaggerylit.com/an-interview-with-amulya-malladi/ in Jaggery
“Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree.”
"Song for a Dark Girl" (l. 1-4), from Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
“This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.”
UN speech, June 2013
Context: Even if there was a gun in my hand and he was standing in front of me, I would not shoot him. This is the compassion I have learned from Mohamed, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha. This the legacy of change I have inherited from Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mohammed Ali Jinnah. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa. And this is the forgiveness that I have learned from my father and from my mother. This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.
