I feel like I have a very typical west African physique, and that is part of my blackness! — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I am sliding, down,down. Toward blackness, I must not sleep. I must not sleep.I.Must.Not.Sleep.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would… — Yann Martel 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
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
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
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
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 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
Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness,… — Richelle Mead 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
I'm aware that if I make a country album and release it, and it gets on the Grammys, the Grammys are going… — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California.… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away,… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him… — John Steinbeck 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
There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some… — Jesse Williams 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
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
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share Image
“You listen to me, and listen good!" she shouted, shocking me. "I am not evil because I have a thousand years of… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The… — Yasunari Kawabata 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
