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In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
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Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off"… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
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No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky… — John Stott Copy Share Image
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No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am… — Sylvia Plath 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
One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
As a queer woman of colour I've been asked to be more urban, as if my brand of Blackness wasn't quite Black… — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
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Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
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[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
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None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
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