Quotes About Blackness

#1. I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

Dave Gahan

#2. 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?

Stacey Lee

#3. The moonless sky was a rich wild blackness of stars.

Louise Erdrich

#4. 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.

Robert Creeley

#5. Weirdly, an image of Adrian's Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it
apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.

Richelle Mead

#6. Nothing but stars, scattered across the blackness as though the Creator had smashed the windscreen of his car and hadn't bothered to stop to sweep up the pieces.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

Halle Berry

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

Owen Feltham

#9. Z, can you see?" "Oh sure, looks like black with darker spots of black on a burning black background of blackness.

Michael-Scott Earle

#10. The blackness that smothers me is total, and in the moment before everything falls away, I know what it feels like to be dead.

Michelle Zink

#11. His raspy voice cut through the blackness, darker than the blackness. 'Mine.

Laura Oliva

#12. He wasn't dead. Unless the afterlife was just a crappy room of blackness.

James Dashner

#13. There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

#14. to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery.

Octavia E. Butler

#15. 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.

James Frey

#16. There's no love in you because there's no sex in you. Sex is light and fertility and life and communication! You only have this ... pornography and submission and blackness and death! You're like a faggot!

Mary Gaitskill

#17. Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk into the blackness.

Zadie Smith

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

Charles Lee

#19. Her body poised with the tension of a wild animal, ready to pounce - or to flee. So beautiful, he thought. As he voiced the words, she faded away, and his world returned to blackness.

India Drummond

#20. What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.

John Saul

#21. Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

Mr. T

#22. If you remove Al Sharpton's blackness, he disappears. He's transparent. There's nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I'm a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.

Ken Hutcherson

#23. As I pass out into the blackness,
I wonder if I have ever really known you -
Or if you exist at all,
And are not but a twisted, fevered, silver creation of my brain.
And the unreality of you comes over me,
Like a mist upon a lonely sea.

Mercedes De Acosta

#24. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day ... make a wish and think of me.

Robin Williams

#25. I am sliding, down,down. Toward blackness, I must not sleep. I must not sleep.I.Must.Not.Sleep.

S.J. Watson

#26. Not since Attila the Hun swept across Europe leaving 500 years of total blackness has there been a man like Lee Marvin.

Joshua Logan

#27. She was enchanting. He loved the notes she wrote in her pretty handwriting, the way she smelled, like oranges and dough, the savage blackness of her hair.

Sarah Addison Allen

#28. 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.

Kara Walker

#29. I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. Tires roared. The car lurched forward ... crunching ... a bright light ... yellow eyes ... then blackness.

Jessica Sorensen

#31. When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Banana Yoshimoto

#32. I wished my human heart had been changed with the rest of me, made into immortal marble. Instead of the shredded bit of blackness that it now was, leaking its ichor into me. Tamlin

Sarah J. Maas

#33. I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.

Isaac Marion

#34. There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.

Silvia Cartwright

#35. The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

James Irwin

#36. Where are you from?" I started with what I thought was an easy question.
"Everywhere," he grumbled.
"Everywhere?" I stared into the blackness of the espresso. "I don't think I've been there.

Andrea Cremer

#37. Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

Derek Landy

#38. Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!

Oswald J. Smith

#39. A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still ...

Robert Fanney

#40. 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

#41. You light up the blackness that has been my life, and I don't know how to ever be the kind of man you need and deserve, but I want to try. For you, for me, and for us.

Jasinda Wilder

#42. We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

Saul Williams

#43. If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

Mervyn Peake

#44. How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.

Douglas Coupland

#45. 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.

J. C. Watts

#46. from CHAOS?

Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Jay Woodman

#47. Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or being pantsed. People assume I'm cool.

Laura Yes Yes

#48. Mount Kilauea spilled glowing lava like cords of orange neon-lighting from seemingly nowhere. In the blackness that engulfed the night, electric heat lit flowing streams that fell into the sea, disappearing in a cloud of steam with a sizzling splash.

Victoria Kahler

#49. The clean truth of light can sometimes flow through its blackness, beauty seen dimly through darkness, and like life, it is terribly fragile, with edges that can be dangerously sharp.

George R R Martin

#50. The snow whispered down in the stillness and the sparks rose and dimmed and died in the eternal blackness.

Cormac McCarthy

#51. You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same.

Jean Rhys

#52. 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.

Claudia Rankine

#53. 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!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#54. The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.
An ocean of blackness without any shore.
A neverending nothing.
And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving speck. A fragile parcel filled with sleeping people and their dreams.

Philip Reeve

#55. But it was difficult to remain faithful when all about you was blackness and exertion.

David Kirk

#56. I love my blackness. And yours.

Deray McKesson

#57. Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.

Laura Tillman

#58. The sky is black, so rich and thick it looks warm. It feels as if I can see for miles into that blackness, the stars glimmering white, and as my eyes adjust, there are millions of stars. Billions. And it is time to move on. I have no choice.

Melissa Lion

#59. Unmitigated Blackness is coming to the realization that as fucked up and meaningless as it all is, sometimes it's the nihilism that makes life worth living.

Paul Beatty

#60. 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.

Patricia Hill Collins

#61. We all have that inner fear of the dark, no matter how old we get. It's an ingrained instinct to fear the velvety blackness of the night, of things you can't quite see, but know deep down in your bones is there, waiting.

Apryl Baker

#62. The tunneling entrance curves before it opens into this space and there is absolute, waiting, coiled, and sentient blackness.

Sofia Samatar

#63. Who am I? But it was like trying to identify one particular cell that coursed through the torpid veins of my body. Maybe I was just this blackness and bewilderment and pain, but that seemed less like a suitable answer than something I'd read somewhere.

Ralph Ellison

#64. Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.

Bruce Springsteen

#65. window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get any

Lemony Snicket

#66. 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.

Baratunde Thurston

#67. It seemed terribly unfair to have a toothache and a headache and have to bear at the same time the heavy burden of Blackness.

Maya Angelou

#68. I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the place.

Mari Evans

#69. 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

#70. But though the stars were spread across a great reaching blackness, the streets below were bathed in a stale gray dimness which suggested neither night nor day nor any natural phase between them.

Thomas Ligotti

#71. last the play was ended. All had grown dark. The tears streamed down his face. Looking up into the sky there was nothing but blackness there too. Ruin and death, he thought, cover all. The life of man ends in the grave. Worms devour us.

Virginia Woolf

#72. There's a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.

E.K. Johnston

#73. Holocaust survivors and their descendants are supposed to hate those who oppressed and killed them and their people. Black people are not. This is how anti-blackness works.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Toyin Odutola

#75. We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.

S.K. Tremayne

#76. They went on in the perfect blackness, sightless as the blind.

Cormac McCarthy

#77. Slavery, in other words, founded and fixed the meaning of blackness more than any transparent and transhistorical meaning of black skin founded the category of slavery.

Grace Elizabeth Hale

#78. You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

Madonna Ciccone

#79. He spoke into a blackness without depth or dimension.

Cormac McCarthy

#80. I found it easier to stare out into the infinite blackness, away from the fire burning itself out in his eyes.

Heather Heffner

#81. On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light? Or just patches of grey?

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#82. You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.

Douglas Adams

#83. I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down. It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

Michael Emerson

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

Haruki Murakami

#85. 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

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

Neil Gaiman

#87. The extra line or two around her eyes only made them more fascinating; the touch of silver in her hair enhanced the blackness of the rest; and if she was a little heavier than she had been it made her body more voluptuous.

Ken Follett

#88. I've known damnable beauty - the turgid pull of swirling blackness - but in the end, it's futile - purity alone redeems ...

John Geddes

#89. What I was pointing to was that, yeah, blackness is a fiction; whiteness is a fiction. When we live according to these categories, we're living within a fiction. Of course, it's a fiction with very real consequences.

Jess Row

#90. I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.

Gil Scott-Heron

#91. You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

Na'ama Yehuda

#92. Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.

Chang-rae Lee

#93. To be liberated from the stigma of blackness by embracing it is to cease, forever, one's interior argument and collaboration with the authors of one's degradation. It abruptly reduces the white enemy to a contest merely physical, which he can win only physically.

James Baldwin

#94. Watching the very last glimmers of light sink into blackness behind the horizon.

Douglas Adams

#95. I tend to think having that extreme of color, that kind of black, is amazingly beautiful ... and powerful. What I was thinking to do with my image was to reclaim the image of blackness as an emblem of power.

Kerry James Marshall

#96. Black people are either threats or entertainment.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#97. It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.

Paul David Washer

#98. The blackness of darkness, forever.

Beth Gibbons

#99. Lights in the blackness. Waiting for the score. Putting on a face. Flirt a little more. That

Kasie West

#100. It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

Charles Duke