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
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
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton 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
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
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
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
I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed… — Kola Boof 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In… — Jay Woodman 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
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 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
“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
“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
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
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
