Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails… — Laura Yes Yes Copy Share Image
The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He… — Randall Kennedy 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
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
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky… — John Stott 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
I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no… — RaMell Ross 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
“But some people don’t want to believe that, because if varying degrees of blackness become normalized, then that means society has to… — Phoebe Robinson 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
“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
“If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather… — Andrew McMahon Copy Share Image
The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am… — Zazie Beetz Copy Share Image
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Whenever I ask myself what blackness means to me, I am struck by the parallels that exist between my predicament and that… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.'… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your… — Toyin Odutola 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
“You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“You light up the blackness that has been my life, and I don’t know how to ever be the kind of man… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk… — Halle Berry 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
“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
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
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos,… — Isaac Marion 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
![“[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?” quote by Steve Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b0/steve-martin-593_blackness_her-mind-blackens-the-blackness-is-not-a_2060568.jpg)
