Blackness Quote by Colson Whitehead Download Open image “I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.” — Colson Whitehead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blackness Healer Representative
We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
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… — J C Watts Copy Share Image
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… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does. — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Blackness, any sort of difference, is not a burden. Relegating blackness or other sorts of difference to serious books that explicitly engage with issues… — Rumaan Alam 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 dress? Or… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend. — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where I am… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Every Tuesday, James Fulton (and later, Orville Lever) stood in the downstairs drawing room and lectured on the intricacies of his science. Lectured on… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The Great War had always been between the white and the black. It always would be. Cora” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Don’t go searching for a subject, let your subject find you. You can’t rush inspiration. … Once your subject finds you, it’s like falling… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“its terms? Homer watched her as she dressed, like a valet who had waited on her since the cradle. “I’m caught,” Cora said. “You… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
These days I find myself wanting to avoid being pigeon-holed, ghettoized, held in a different category than other authors. And when people ask me… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There's always an attack on the sophomore novel from some quarters. — Colson Whitehead 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
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