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.
Quotes about blackness (16 Quotes)
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is that's where all the good stuff is.
It is made lawful to you to go into your wives on the night of the fast they are an apparel for you and you are an apparel for them Allah knew that you acted unfaithfully to yourselves, so He has turned to you (mercifully) and removed from you (this burden) so now be in contact with them and seek what Allah has ordained for you, and eat and drink until the whiteness of the day becomes distinct from the blackness of the night at dawn, then complete the fast till night, and have not contact with them while you keep to the mosques these are the limits of Allah, so do not go near them. Thus does Allah make clear His communications for men that they may guard (against evil).
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.
Oh teach me yet; Somewhat before the heavy clod; Weighs on me, and the busy fret; Of that sharp-headed worm begins; In the gross blackness underneath.
The Daffodil It is the quiet, the suffocating quiet that is so hard. I know the death you fear, the blackness the narrow bed the waiting for spring. It is a long time to have faith for you who buried me and for me with no voice to make sure I am remembered. Will you fall to your knees in April grass when you hear the sound of my yellow trumpet.
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.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness.
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.
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
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.
A multi-millionaire's sins may cause one woman to apply for legal redress, but there is absolutely no depth of moral blackness that will deter some other woman from consenting to replace her.