Blackness Quotes

114 quotes by 93 authors

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except… — Stephen King
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. — Frank Herbert
I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't… — Bell Hooks
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldnâ€™t start with race; I wouldnâ€™t start with blackness; I wouldnâ€™t start with gender; I wouldnâ€™t… — Bell Hooks
We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural… — Michael Eric Dyson
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark — Haruki Murakami
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love… — Guy de Maupassant
I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,… — Alan Moore
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is… — Douglas Coupland
But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness.… — Billy Collins
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things werenâ€™t so clear.… — Sarah Dessen
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into… — Federico Garcia Lorca
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and… — Bell Hooks
Will moved to object, but it was too late; Henry had already pressed the button. There was a blinding flare of light and a whooshing… — Cassandra Clare
He would say, "How funny it will all seem, all you've gone through, when I'm not here anymore, when you no longer feel my arms… — Arthur Rimbaud
â€¦â€œwhite supremacyâ€ is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not… — Bell Hooks
I think about my choice. Either outcome is bleak. If I stay and live through high school, go to college, get a job, what will… — Julie Anne Peters
In my dream it was very dark, and what dim light there was seemed to be radiating from Edward's skin. I couldn't see his face,… — Stephenie Meyer
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up… — Sylvia Plath

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