We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that? — Tamron Hall Copy Share Image
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. — Neil Gaiman 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
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
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
The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to… — Michael Emerson 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 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
Even though Blackness isn't a monolith, there are things that for Black people in the U.S. and globally are shared experiences. I… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot… — Steven Caple Jr Copy Share Image
“A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It rose like blackness In the sky That… — Robert Fanney 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
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there:… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light… — Cassandra Clare 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
Identity is becoming more dependent on what people are willing subscribe to and less dependent on objective criteria such as skin colour… — Stuart Hall 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
And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks 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
“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
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
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
