The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
“have you ever heard a black woman weep over her skinmurdered child. it is the splitting of atoms. it is billions of… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with… — Bell Hooks 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
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
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
[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
“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
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
Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. — Michelle Obama 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
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
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
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
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I… — Sylvia Plath 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
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of… — Bell Hooks 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