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
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
We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California.… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And… — Jim Brown 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
We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible,… — Rachel Pollack 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
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
“I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell. There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas One day your cruisin' in your seven,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that? — Tamron Hall 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
As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black'… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
