3 Quotes & Sayings By Ojo Blacke

Ojo Blacke is an award-winning author of suspenseful, edgy, and thought-provoking novels in the African-American romantic suspense genre. Her long list of awards include the Holt Medallion (2011), YA Book Award (2012), and Bisti/Deerlodge Award for Excellence in Mystery & Suspense (2012). She has also been honored with the RT Book Reviews's Career Achievement Award (2007) and was recently inducted into The Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame (2011). Ojo is a member of the International Thriller Writers Organization Read more

She lives in Texas with her husband and two daughters.

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As researchers of the paranormal, we must understand there are ways to change the rhythm of time within us, ways to change the beat. These ways have been known since the beginnings of civilization, and possibly much earlier. And these ways would require no more effort than simply recognizing the secret rhythms of things. Moreover, we may learn to beat with them and begin to perceive a different kind of space, and ultimately discover an altogether different conception of reality…. Ojo Blacke
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We know what wood is and what earth and stone are and that they have a color and texture, a smell and even a taste, but matter as a perceptible material substance independent of the nature of the wood, earth and stone composed of it seems incomprehensible. In order for us to regard a thing as real it must possess at least some distinctive physical qualities. We must be able to experience it as a physical thing before we can decide it is real. Matter as proposed by modern science, however, has no distinctive or definite physical qualities at all. Matter is simply some unimaginable stuff possessing no conceivable definition whatsoever. The concept of matter, then, proves to be just as elusive and abstract as the concepts of spirit, soul or the life-principle. Ojo Blacke