Blackness Quotes

Blackness Quote of the day

I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

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

Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.

There's a little blackness inside all of us.

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness.

Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

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 one of the many elements that make up my character.

I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

The blackness of darkness, forever.

Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

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.

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable never to touch. But I love you. Do you love me. What to say when you see me.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

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

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.