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We have to understand and explain to each other what blackness is.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and…

— Kara Walker

We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

— Tamron Hall

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this…

— Kerry James Marshall

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this…

— Montel Williams

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

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

— Robin DiAngelo

Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: Black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be…

— Michelle Alexander

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try…

— Karen Marie Moning

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

The beauty of being black in American society is that black has always been an inclusive definition. White has always been an exclusive definition.…

— Benjamin Jealous

Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation,…

— Michael Eric Dyson