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  • For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And ifsome part of the non—entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.

    "A Single Man".
  • 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 (2009). “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America”, p.231, Basic Books
  • 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.

    Men   Leaving   Darkness  
    "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 37,
  • I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

    Reading   Flames   Years  
    Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

    Fame   Blackness   Ifs  
  • The world was held in a savage gloom - cold and intolerable. Outside, all was quiet - quiet! From the dark room behind me, came the occasional, soft thud of falling matter - fragments of rotting stone. So time passed, and night grasped the world, wrapping it in wrappings of impenetrable blackness.

    Fall   Dark   Night  
    William Hope Hodgson (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Hope Hodgson (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics
  • Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.

    Ocean   Character   White  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

    Cutting   Dark   Hands  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.
  • We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

    Race   Ideas   Black  
  • Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

    Cancer   Survival   Proud  
  • There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

    War   Mean   Self  
    "Notes on the Way". Time and Tide Magazine, June 10, 1934.
  • Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

    Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”
  • 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!

    Jesus   Compassion   Soul  
  • 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.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

    Ignorance   Fate   Men  
  • The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.

    Distance   Space   Three  
    "My Conversation With an Astronaut". Interview with Ben Arnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2012.
  • I am lucky. I did not choose this life. It chose me. It's strange like that; not picking my path, but rather easing into the water and letting it carry me where it will. Yes, there will be nights where I feel like my destiny is at my fingertips and there will be nights I wish the lights were off and I could just make these sounds in the dark. Still, I will always be there, wherever there might be, staring into blackness hoping the blackness stares back at me.

    Dark   Night   Destiny  
  • I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. 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. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

    Country   Morning   Dark  
  • I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed me. But I'm talking about what I see in the streets and in the media, this naked hatred that black men have towards the authentic black woman'which is really an indication of black men's hatred for blackness itself.

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

    Cassia Leo (2014). “Black Box”, p.38, Gloss Publishing
  • I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.

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

    Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.137, Hachette UK
  • The raven once in snowy plumes was drest, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

    Ravens   White   Swans  
    Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.56
  • Heaven is not like flying or swimming, but has something to do with blackness and a strong glare.

    Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.41, Macmillan
  • 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!

    Dark   Night   Light  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122
  • I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

    Beach   Needs   Blackness  
    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.108, Ballantine Books
  • We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

    Stephen King (1985). “Danse Macabre”, Berkley
  • 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.

  • All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

  • 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.

    Lonely   Dark   Light  
    Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press
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