Blackness Quotes

114 quotes by 93 authors

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear. — Bruce Springsteen
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. — Bob Dylan
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss. — Madonna Ciccone
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too… — Yasunari Kawabata
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. — Yann Martel
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each… — Joaquin Miller
I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one… — J C Watts
Every light has a point where it is brightest and a point toward which it wanders to lose itself completely. It must be intercepted to… — Josef von Sternberg
There is fascism , leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders,and self-righteous brutality,… — E. M. Forster
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? — Jamie Foxx
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and… — Stephen Fry
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of… — David O. McKay
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how… — Michelle Obama
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent. — Michael Eric Dyson
[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… — Steve Martin
The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get… — Cormac McCarthy
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving. — Yann Martel

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