Blackness Quotes

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

— Paul Celan

“He spoke into a blackness without depth or dimension.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I love my blackness... I love my queerness.

— Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

“Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“Lights flicker, flash, dim. I fall into the blackness.”

— Cynthia Sax

There's a little blackness inside all of us.

— Cassia Leo

Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

— Mr. T

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

— Sylvia Plath

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

— Alex Haley

“...I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems...”

— John Geddes

“Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.”

— R. Scott Bakker

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

— Madonna Ciccone

My Blackness, my Latinidad, and my queerness all resonate in me equally and can't be separated from each other.

— Ariana DeBose

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

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.”

— Cormac McCarthy

When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a…

— Kerry James Marshall

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing…

— Patrick Ness

“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In…

— Jay Woodman

I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but…

— Henry Louis Gates

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

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by…

— Baratunde Thurston

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across…

— Robin Williams

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away…

— James Irwin

For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the…

— Christopher Isherwood

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a…

— Daniel H. Wilson

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're…

— Rita Mae Brown

I intuitively knew about the problem with cinema and you're like, 'Oh, that's why. There's this thing called 'black representational space' that…

— RaMell Ross

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I…

— Faith Ringgold

The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room…

— William Hope Hodgson

One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there…

— Winston Churchill

... the only other place comparable to these marvelous nether regions, must surely be naked space itself, out far beyond atmosphere, between…

— William Beebe

The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“You listen to me, and listen good!" she shouted, shocking me. "I am not evil because I have a thousand years of…

— Kim Harrison

“…It was this white garment of mourning which he still wore, the white mourning of surgical gowns so much more significant than…

— Michel Leiris

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

“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.…

— idowu koyenikan

“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even…

— Thomas Ligotti

February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness…

— Boris Pasternak

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new…

— James Baldwin