I want my portraits to create a space where blackness can breathe.
Amy Sherald
SpaceCreateWantBreatheBlackness
Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people who are that dark because it has always been stigmatised.
Kerry James Marshall
PeopleBlackDarkAlwaysBlackness
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
RootsBlackSkinForgottenBlackness
If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.
Lecrae
YouRealizeGotBlacknessSupremacy
Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
Liu Xiaobo
LoveIceIntenseBlacknessRemote
My paintings are very much about the consumption and production of blackness. And how blackness is marketed to the world.
Kehinde Wiley
WorldProductionBlacknessMuchHow
The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.
DeRay Mckesson
HistoryBlacknessThe History OfAlso
The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.
Issa Rae
TryingFindAlwaysBlacknessVery
Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
Jesse Williams
PeopleSameBlackness
I'm not a representative of blackness, and I'm not a healer.
Colson Whitehead
BlacknessRepresentativeHealer
We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
Tamron Hall
MeYouDefineBlacknessHow
So often, blackness is seen in a negative light.
Angie Thomas
LightNegativeSeenBlacknessOften
Blackness remains the coat you can't take off.
Clint Smith
YouCoatTakeOffBlacknessRemains
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does.
Rachel Dolezal
I AmBetterWhoBlacknessDefines
I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
LoveBlacknessI Love
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
SleepWillShallowSinkBlackness
You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.
CultureBlackYouSayWhoBlackness
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
ImpactPoliticalHip-HopBlackness
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
I AmChildNightYesterdayBlackness
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
CharacterWantEmbraceUpBlackness
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