blackness, n.Definitions

Blackness is trying to smile when you want to cry.

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

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

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

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

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

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