Blackness Quote by Maya Angelou

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it…

— Jean Genet

“She pushed the hair away, then began uncoiling and recoiling the silky mass with an unconscious, natural grace. Against the crude background of the…

— Fiona Brand

“Dark swarmed behind her eyelids and, in jerky seconds of sleep, she dreamed the dark came into her. Dark came insidious, up her nose…

— Thomas Harris

“Have you ever noticed there's no twilight in Africa? [...] It must affect the way the psyche develops. I think it makes people here…

— Tucker Malarkey

Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached…

— Kit Williams

The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me,…

— William Hope Hodgson

Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all…

— John of the Cross

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within…

— Guy de Maupassant

“...in other spheres of Victorian Society the appeal of a young woman dressed in black from head to toe was acknowledged. In Victorian popular…

— Catharine Arnold

“The surrounding black night air rushed by me as my eyes began to adjust to the darkness and recognize shapes in the black on…

— Peter Jenkins

“He enjoyed the soft sound of night wind and the knowledge that he was the only boy — perhaps the only human being —…

— Dan Simmons

“And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a…

— Kola Boof