„I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.“

— Maya Angelou
„I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend… I'm gonna be your friend!“
— Bob Marley
„Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.“
— H.P. Lovecraft
„Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.“
— Jodi Picoult