Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful...and powerful. What I was thinking to… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing… — Justin Ordoñez Copy Share Image
I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage.… — Silvia Cartwright Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming… — Carol Anderson Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“black women breathe flowers, too. just because we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret)… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small,… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
“If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness.… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low… — Phonte Copy Share Image
“You light up the blackness that has been my life, and I don’t know how to ever be the kind of man… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“white people try to take blackness. pour it out rub it into their skin and wear us like they know what we… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails… — Laura Yes Yes Copy Share Image
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs.… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.'… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
![“[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?” quote by Steve Martin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b0/steve-martin-593_blackness_her-mind-blackens-the-blackness-is-not-a_2060568.jpg)
