Blackness Quotes
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.
The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.
The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.
Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.
I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?
You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets.
Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound
Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands
Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative".
White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.
