blackness

Example Sentences

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“This was a period in English culture before blackness acquired its fatal association with slavery,” he writes, identifying a “certain strain of indifference to color” in the thinking of the time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Lang awoke to blackness, thick smoke burning his throat and dozens of car alarms bleating in his ear.

From New York Times

“Now I, who was born in this forest, I have to breathe this blackness.”

From Seattle Times

Above the rooftops there was a cloud of blackness.

From BBC

That is also femininity and strength in womanhood and her unapologetic approach to her blackness and what she represented during her time.

From New York Times