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
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss. — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“The blackness tried to swallow us whole, kill us, ruin us, capture our soul” — Pepper Winters Copy Share Image
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner 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
“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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible,… — Rachel Pollack 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
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
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
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place. — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“A Black Madonna: the blackness of death, but also the blackness of good soil, dark with decay, which gives rise to life.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“blackness of deep space with a few stars glittering like the dandruff on the shoulders of God.” — Terry Pratchett 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
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
“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
“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
