62 Quotes About Blackness

Empowerment looks like cultivating the wisdom to make the best choices we can out of what are customarily a piss-poor set of options. Power looks like the ability to create better options. The powerlessness and capriciousness of being repeatedly jammed up at the personal and political crossroads of one's intersection while a watching world pretends not to see you there, needing help, is how it feels to be a Black woman on an ordinary day.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still...

In America, the role of blacks, as for humans everywhere, is to live and flourish and to be fit progenitors for generations to come. To do so, they must oppose racism in an unrelenting way. Psychiatry for such warriors aims to keep them fit for the duty at hand and healthy enough to enjoy the victories that are certain to come.

White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

have you everhearda black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.it is the splitting of atoms.it is billionsofvoices screaming their children’s namesthroughher death wail.–– trayvon martin ii

Those who are lost in the dark should know that life is like aday of 24 hours; night falls to cast the blackness every day, yetthe sun never fails to come out. So, we must not be disappointedwith the absence of light in our lives

I can sense your love,why leave me in darkness?Beguile me for your amusement,stealing my soul without kisses. You are the sun and I, the moon. Your beauty is reflected in my eyes.When we are apart, I am extinguishedin the blackness of these skies.