Blackness Quotes · Page 3

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

— Charles Duke

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

— Tamron Hall

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful…

— Louis Untermeyer

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.”

— Cormac McCarthy

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

We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

— Nina Persson

“blackness of deep space with a few stars glittering like the dandruff on the shoulders of God.”

— Terry Pratchett

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we…

— Joaquin Miller

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

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I…

— Sylvia Plath

There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by…

— Roger Zelazny

It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous…

— Haruki Murakami

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all…

— Steven Biko

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across…

— Robin Williams

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by…

— Baratunde Thurston

One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there…

— Winston Churchill

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton,…

— Michelle Obama

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a…

— Daniel H. Wilson

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're…

— Rita Mae Brown

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the…

— Christopher Isherwood

The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room…

— William Hope Hodgson

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I…

— Faith Ringgold

I intuitively knew about the problem with cinema and you're like, 'Oh, that's why. There's this thing called 'black representational space' that…

— RaMell Ross

“A Black Madonna: the blackness of death, but also the blackness of good soil, dark with decay, which gives rise to life.”

— Lev Grossman

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

— Banana Yoshimoto

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

— Bruce Springsteen

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

— Rumi

I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.

— Mari Evans

“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.”

— Yann Martel

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

— George Carlin

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

— Rachel Dolezal

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

— Owen Feltham

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of…

— Bob Dylan

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it…

— Yann Martel

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“The blackness tried to swallow us whole, kill us, ruin us, capture our soul”

— Pepper Winters

My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.

— Kehinde Wiley

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

— Elizabeth Bishop