We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance. — Thomas Marshburn Copy Share Image
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that? — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me.… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist:… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible,… — Rachel Pollack Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black'… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“I'm warning you. I'm going to get waxy. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell. There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas One day your cruisin' in your seven,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
