Blackness Quotes

114 Blackness quotes by 93 unique authors

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
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 wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’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 weren’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

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