“This obsessing heart which does not correspond To my language, nor to my customs, And on which encroach, like a clinging-root, Borrowed… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,… — Gil Scott-Heron 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
My Blackness, my Latinidad, and my queerness all resonate in me equally and can't be separated from each other. — Ariana DeBose 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
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
For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small,… — Brian Cox 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
The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room… — William Hope Hodgson 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
“If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness.… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton,… — Michelle Obama 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
Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age-and all of our fears that it carries-will "rub off"… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
[My picture A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self ] was a way of demonstrating that there… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage.… — Silvia Cartwright 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
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara 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
