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The blackness of darkness, forever.
I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
There's a little blackness inside all of us.
Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.
All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.
Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.
I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.
We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.
I feel like I have a very typical west African physique, and that is part of my blackness!
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.
Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
I think that unlearning race for black people is more along the lines of seriously saying blackness isn't real, race isn't real.
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
Being conscious of Global Blackness is knowing that we are not an island of our struggle but a nation of our triumphs. That's blackness to me.
I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.
The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.
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.
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.
I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was actually very much in-tune with her Blackness.
Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am I German enough?' Why are we measuring blackness?
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?
I am not renouncing my blackness and going on about my day. I am rejecting the legitimacy of the entire racial construct in which blackness functions as one orienting pole.
I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian and my Italian - everything that makes me, me.
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.
With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there's no reason to pretend the NBA has been handicapped by the blackness of basketball.
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.
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.
Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.
I never had a moment of realization about my blackness - I just was. Blackness was a central thread of my experience as a child and as an adolescent, as it is now that I'm an adult.
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.
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.