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Blackness is not a monolith, it’s important to have a variety of people in front of kids just because it expands their view. A lot of times in inner cities, it’s easy for their world to become small. – Jamaal Grant	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The fact that we still see this( dehumanization of Blackness) is, I think, proof that we've not really come that far, i wish that I had a silver lining. But I think that we're going to continue to see these kinds of narratives play out because they're so effective, ultimately( at reinforcing existing power structures). – Caroline Light	Found on CNN 2 years ago
And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash, that we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about this country, and that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But for a Black person to do that, somehow that's criminal. So you have the criminalization of Blackness coursing through this thing. – Carol Anderson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We hope that by encountering these works, our community is inspired to further explore and study the breadth of artistic expression and the impact of Blackness in creative innovation throughout history. – Saint Heron	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You’re looking into blackness, that black ugliness. You’re looking at the blue down there [on Earth] and the black up there, there is mother Earth and comfort and there is… is there death? I don’t know, is that death? Is that the way death is? – William Shatner	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When I questioned our relationship, it was in the context of you not fully understanding my Blackness and what it means to be a Black man in America, it broke my heart, because this is the last conversation I thought we'd be having. I didn't sign up to have this conversation. – Matt James	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I see blinding, vivid, white light and I see blackness at the same time. Just dark, deep black and these vivid white flashes. – Myles Cosgrove	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness. – Kansas City.Throughout her adult life	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When things are so dark like they are in the deep sea, if you reflect even a handful of photons, something can detect you, and here, these animals are covering their whole [ bodies ] in this ultra-black skin to basically suck up all the light and match the pitch blackness of the deep sea. – Alexander Davis	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The first time I saw it [the Earth], we came from the backside of the Moon and we watched Earthrise. My first thought was, Were a long way from home, but after that, you recognize the beauty of it the blue, the white and the brown. Earth was just there suspended upon nothing, in the blackness of space.It was just awesome. – Charles Duke	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I ras cardo say this truth:- darkness may be the absence of light, but blackness is not necessarily the absence of white. So, my reggae say, why fuss and fight racially as to who is wrong or who is right? wake up and live!! – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
She was raised by her mother to embrace her blackness in a world that otherwise denigrates any connection to blackness. – Tanya Kateri Hernandez	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are not the stars in the sky, we are the empty blackness around them. – Tom	added by Tom Fewer 5 years ago
In terms of Black Lives Matter, we're in this really hyper politicized movement where blackness is being discussed in the mainstream, so it's a smart move for her to play with that type of imagery, it achieved what it was meant to do. People are talking about it. – Bakari Kitwana	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality. – Devon Jerome Crawford	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you combine the psychological impact of racism, anti-blackness, economic conditions, red-lining, disinvestment. – Lawrence Brown	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are. – Rachel Dolezal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I've grown up in this community. I'm as black as it gets. I was born on the South side. I come from an obviously black family. We weren't rich. I put my blackness up against anybody's blackness in this state, ok ? , and Barack is a black man. And he's done more in terms of meeting his commitments and sticking his neck out for this community than many people who criticize him. And I can say that'cause I'm black. – Michelle Obama	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will “rub off” on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would. – Perry Brass	added by JP03 9 years ago
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it. – Feltham	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars – Louis Untermeyer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Blackness is not a monolith, it’s important to have a variety of people in front of kids just because it expands their view. A lot of times in inner cities, it’s easy for their world to become small.

– Jamaal Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that we still see this( dehumanization of Blackness) is, I think, proof that we've not really come that far, i wish that I had a silver lining. But I think that we're going to continue to see these kinds of narratives play out because they're so effective, ultimately( at reinforcing existing power structures).

– Caroline Light

Found on CNN
2 years ago

And that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash, that we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This year, to me, is just reflective of what I’ve always understood about this country, and that is that steps forward, steps towards racial progress, are always met with an intensive backlash. That we are a society that willfully does not want to deal with the anti-Blackness that is at the core of so many of our institutions and really our society itself.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But for a Black person to do that, somehow that's criminal. So you have the criminalization of Blackness coursing through this thing.

– Carol Anderson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We hope that by encountering these works, our community is inspired to further explore and study the breadth of artistic expression and the impact of Blackness in creative innovation throughout history.

– Saint Heron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You’re looking into blackness, that black ugliness. You’re looking at the blue down there [on Earth] and the black up there, there is mother Earth and comfort and there is… is there death? I don’t know, is that death? Is that the way death is?

– William Shatner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When I questioned our relationship, it was in the context of you not fully understanding my Blackness and what it means to be a Black man in America, it broke my heart, because this is the last conversation I thought we'd be having. I didn't sign up to have this conversation.

– Matt James

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I see blinding, vivid, white light and I see blackness at the same time. Just dark, deep black and these vivid white flashes.

– Myles Cosgrove

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.

– Kansas City.Throughout her adult life

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When things are so dark like they are in the deep sea, if you reflect even a handful of photons, something can detect you, and here, these animals are covering their whole [ bodies ] in this ultra-black skin to basically suck up all the light and match the pitch blackness of the deep sea.

– Alexander Davis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The first time I saw it [the Earth], we came from the backside of the Moon and we watched Earthrise. My first thought was, Were a long way from home, but after that, you recognize the beauty of it the blue, the white and the brown. Earth was just there suspended upon nothing, in the blackness of space.It was just awesome.

– Charles Duke

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I ras cardo say this truth:- darkness may be the absence of light, but blackness is not necessarily the absence of white. So, my reggae say, why fuss and fight racially as to who is wrong or who is right? wake up and live!!

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

She was raised by her mother to embrace her blackness in a world that otherwise denigrates any connection to blackness.

– Tanya Kateri Hernandez

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are not the stars in the sky, we are the empty blackness around them.

– Tom

added by Tom Fewer
5 years ago

In terms of Black Lives Matter, we're in this really hyper politicized movement where blackness is being discussed in the mainstream, so it's a smart move for her to play with that type of imagery, it achieved what it was meant to do. People are talking about it.

– Bakari Kitwana

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implicated in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, this killing indicates the detachment of city leaders from the plight of black, teenage youth on the South Side of Chicago and a willingness by the city to criminalize blackness as opposed to reforming structural inequality.

– Devon Jerome Crawford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you combine the psychological impact of racism, anti-blackness, economic conditions, red-lining, disinvestment.

– Lawrence Brown

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can't just say in one sentence what is blackness or what is black culture or what makes you who you are.

– Rachel Dolezal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I've grown up in this community. I'm as black as it gets. I was born on the South side. I come from an obviously black family. We weren't rich. I put my blackness up against anybody's blackness in this state, ok ? , and Barack is a black man. And he's done more in terms of meeting his commitments and sticking his neck out for this community than many people who criticize him. And I can say that'cause I'm black.

– Michelle Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will “rub off” on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

– Perry Brass

added by JP03
9 years ago

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.

– Feltham

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars

– Louis Untermeyer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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