Blackness Quotes

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

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Monolithic

• The blackness of darkness, forever.

  

  Beth Gibbons Portishead
  • Darkness
  • Blackness

• We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

  

  Nina Persson A Camp
  • Thinking
  • Soul
  • Wells

• Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Extraordinary
  • Finals
  • Crystals

• I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Humanity
  • Color

• [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 be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

  

  Steve Martin
  • Mind
  • Color
  • Essence

• 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. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Dark
  • Eye

• 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
  • Impact
  • Conception
  • Blackness

• 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
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Blackness

• 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 fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Tears
  • Uplifting
  • Racist

• There's a little blackness inside all of us.

  

  Cassia Leo
  • Littles
  • Blackness

• It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

  

  Charles Duke
  • Intense
  • Blackness

• If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Dark
  • Pitch
  • Blackness

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

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Understand
  • Explain
  • Blackness