It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“His raspy voice cut through the blackness, darker than the blackness. 'Mine.” — Laura Oliva Copy Share Image
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed… — J C Watts Copy Share Image
I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo 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
Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there:… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must… — Josef von Sternberg Copy Share Image
Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“There's more to blackness than bludgeoning people with memories of past atrocities and injustices or the discussion of how difficult it is… — Touré Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Groping in the blackness seems an appropriate metaphor for the creative life. You are compelled to do this work but cannot know… — Elizabeth Ross Copy Share Image
“A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
“have you ever heard a black woman weep over her skinmurdered child. it is the splitting of atoms. it is billions of… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the… — Stephen Carter Copy Share Image
