Blackness Quote by Clint Smith Download Open image “Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.” — Clint Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blackness Coat Remains Take You
There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat. — Daria Werbowy Copy Share Image
Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree in private… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an impact on… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Preparing oneself for the possibility of confronting racism triggers something that slowly chips away at physical and emotional well-being. — Clint Smith 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 living on… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible dissolution of things. Nothing compares, even oblivion is… — Thomas Ligotti 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 Po described… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson 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 alone I… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing. — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving… — Jesse Williams Copy Share Image
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a… — Rita Mae Brown 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 eyes of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
