Kara Walker
Artist
"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."
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Blackness
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Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before."
Cassia Leo
Author
"There's a little blackness inside all of us."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness."
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"This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality."
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