Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk… — Halle Berry 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
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
“Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we… — Joaquin Miller 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
