“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens,… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy 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
I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“Emmanuel started learning the basics of his Blackness before he knew how to do long division: smiling when angry, whispering when he… — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Copy Share Image
The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance. — Thomas Marshburn 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
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me.… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must… — Josef von Sternberg Copy Share Image
... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a… — Walter Johnson 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
