“Outside, the sun shines. Inside, there’s only darkness. The blackness is hard to describe, as it’s more than symptoms. It’s a nothing… — Justin Ordoñez Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the… — Stephen Carter Copy Share Image
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so… — Kristin Cashore 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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
“The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
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
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
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
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
“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
[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.'… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
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
The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,… — Ovid 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
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs.… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails… — Laura Yes Yes Copy Share Image
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans… — Saul Williams 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
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming… — Carol Anderson Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
![“[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?” quote by Steve Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b0/steve-martin-593_blackness_her-mind-blackens-the-blackness-is-not-a_2060568.jpg)
