“DAGOO: What of that? [a streak of lightning] Who’s afraid of black’s afraid of me! I’m quarried out of it!

SPANISH SAILOR: (Aside) He want to bully, ah!—the old grudge makes me touchy. (Advancing.) Aye, harpooneer, thy race is the undeniable dark side of mankind—devilish dark at that. No offence.

DAGOO: (grimly) None.”

—Hermann Melville, from Moby Dick. As quoted in The Power of Blackness by Narry Levin, 1958.