blackness, n.All

Blackness is not a matter of pigmentation but a reflection of a mental attitude.

Blackness is trying to smile when you want to cry.

Blackness is a category determined by nothing but centuries of racist degradation, exploitation, oppression, the abuse of white supremacy, and the struggle against that abuse.

Blackness is in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth. Blackness is not a curse, but a capturing by the skin of all the cosmic effluvia, a drop of sun under the earth.

Blackness is a dual process defined by the corporeal schema and the historico-racial schema.

Blackness is marked by the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies.

Blackness is trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death.

Blackness is having one's legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.