“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
“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
“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
When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to… — Michael Emerson 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
One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“What would you expect to find when the muzzle that has silenced the voices of black men is removed? That they would… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
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
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 Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away… — James Irwin Copy Share Image
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation… — James H. Cone 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
Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by… — Baratunde Thurston 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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