There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the… — Stephen Carter Copy Share Image
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s...beautiful, really.” “Tell me.” And so… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
“white people try to take blackness. pour it out rub it into their skin and wear us like they know what we… — Nayyirah Waheed 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
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
“There is no possible way for the average human mind to grasp it; the totality of the evil. It involves everyone; it… — Austin Dragon Copy Share Image
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“That morning, like every morning, the first decision he made regarded his Blackness. His skin was a deep, constant brown. In public,… — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Copy Share Image
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton Copy Share Image
What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low… — Phonte Copy Share Image
Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee 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
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable… — Guy de Maupassant 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
“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
True, I used to see a lot of hope. I saw men tear down the veils behind which the truth had been… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Remember a Florida judge instructing a jury to focus only on the moment when George Zimmerman and Trayvon Marton interacted, thus transforming… — Carol Anderson Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Ah, but you, Darkness, you know all this. I tell you night after night. Nothing will shock you. Maybe I go on… — Tim Winton 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
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
“black women breathe flowers, too. just because we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret)… — Nayyirah Waheed 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
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
![“What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open…” quote by Kerry James Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19a/kerry-james-marshall-5157_black_what-i-preserved-in-the-figures-at-invis_2863321.jpg)
