Sentences with phrase «own blackness»

The Night Stalkers operate after sunset, flying through the blackness in some of the craziest scenarios and environments known to man.

The relative lack of minority employees at Twitter was particularly galling, say Luckie and Miley, because the platform had become such an important tool for the global black community, through a vibrant and dedicated subset of users known as Black Twitter — who speak to one another about the reality of blackness in America and who often contribute original reporting, spreading news through ad hoc hashtag communities like #BlackLivesMatter.

The upcoming flights are designed to reach altitudes of more than 65 miles above Earth, high enough to see the curvature of the planet set against the blackness of space.

The reusable rocket and capsule is designed to carry passengers to an altitude of more than 100 miles (62 km) above the planet so they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth set against the blackness of space.

The «outer darkness» (or blackness), Jesus talked about, is reserved for David Silverman.

It's the same blackness in your personal universe that existed before you were born.

Friday, March 6, marks the first annual BlackOut Day, a day dedicated to «celebrating the beauty of Blackness» on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms of choice.

The younger son loves it, and says he learned all about Christ's blackness from the local Nation of Islam.

the blackness of barren bellies, all that is shriveled, starved.

«From this it is very clear that the mark which was set upon the descendants of Cain was a skin of blackness, and there can be no doubt that this was the mark that Cain himself received; in fact, it has been noticed in our day that men who have lost the spirit of the Lord, and from whom His blessings have been withdrawn, have turned dark to such an extent as to excite the comments of all who have known them.»

Many people were covered with a dark grease, perhaps as a way of emulating the blackness of the Virgin.

It was a small, southern community, with a long history, deep roots and consistent Christian morality The only visible difference was our whiteness or our blackness.

Wise application of the Word of God to our life situations, our identity and our purpose was the powerhouse that gave 19th Century African - American theologians the foundational truths upon which historic and modern «blackness» was built — theologians like Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Rev. Alexander Crummell, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner to name a few.

In essence, the pioneers of modern blackness were all in agreement that in order to be black one had to think black, and to think black was to affirm life in the most positive of terms.

For wisdom, we need to look past the rhetoric of the opportunists to the original ideologues of modern blackness, and how they defined blackness itself — men like Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Floyd McKissick.

We need to look past the rhetoric of the opportunists to the original ideologues of modern blackness.

Despite the best efforts of his mother and father, he was without a value - based sense of blackness, and he was «at risk» because he was culturally adrift — primed to be cut down by the forces of «they - all - look - alike - ism.»

As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary deaths are part of a cultural death — the death of blackness itself at the hands of life - denying, anti-blackness.

What this character is saying about legacy, identity, and blackness in DIASPORA is so powerful.

To that end, Dr. Maulana «Ron» Karenga sought to buttress blackness with a clear set of values.

«Blackness» was a state of mind, involving the values one lived by.

In other words, my Jesus - ness must trump my blackness.

It is time to rediscover the values that originally empowered «blackness,» allowing it to become the paradigm - shifting positive force it was from its inception.

If I reject the atheist religion, will I suffer from never ending blackness of rotting in the ground or will I burn in evolution hell?

Hawthorne, for example, in 1859, on the very verge of the Civil War, saw «that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere.

He has come to exemplify the struggle between authentic blackness and anti-blackness, between the affirmation of life and its denial.

Black theology, a product of this development, is the positive, constructive, action - oriented meaning of «blackness» in the religious domain.

As they climbed, more and more ants swarmed up out of the ground so that by the time the first few ants had reached the bloody feet of Jesus, all the ground around the cross and the lower portion of the beam was a roiling mass of blackness.

It's like a church running a program for black folks — telling them that even though they are black, they shouldn't act on that blackness.

The second stanza, one long sentence, propels us toward the culminating lines of the poem to learn what the people see: «There in the sudden blackness of the black pall / Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.»

Looking outwardly upon universalisms» blackness is the samething thing as looking inwardly past the veiled molecules to see what has been scientifically gestured to be «atomic» nebulas in an atomically designated Cosmos,,,,,,,, you know their fathers (plural) as being but one celestial universe within untold numbers of celestial universes within the Celestial Cosmos.

Daisy and the five go on to have their own respective kids, those kids have their own kids, and so on and so on, up to the moment where the sun burns out and the universe experiences heat de.ath to what remain are cold, cosmic cor.pses and eternal blackness for everything residing, de.ad or alive at the time.

As children lost in a woods, are fearful of the sinister darkness — and then, suddenly, hearing a sound from the sombre blackness, a familiar voice, a loving, seeking, helping voice, their mother's voice — so prayer is our reply to the voice from the Word of God in Jesus Christ which suddenly cries out to us in the mysterious, dark universe.

Wilson framed his review as an answer to the question: «How should white listeners approach the «overwhelming blackness» of Kendrick Lamar's brilliant new album?»

He misses the point: White listeners can not snag some community with the «overwhelming blackness» of Butterfly.

Back of everything is the great spectre of universal death, the all - encompassing blackness: --

Without this transcendent religious perspective, To Pimp a Butterfly becomes the difficulty that Clover Hope of Jezebel struggles with — an «overwhelming» and «suffocating» experience of a «blackness» that remains «way too vast.»

15 That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

So what is the best course of action when you find yourself in a place where you are just holding on in the blackness.

African - Americans know all too well how likely reactionaries are to twist the kinds of things Patterson points out to their own ends and use his «blackness» to enhance their credibility.

Blackness of winter night dominates modern literature and consciousness.

If you fall for that which has ensnared so many, your soul will be frozen in silent blackness for all eternity when you die.

Nephi said that the flint of verse 21 made his brothers and their family members receive a curse from God which made their skin to change form from whiteness and goodness to blackness.

Somehow Updike implies an affirmation in writing that at best says, «Blackness is not all.»

Even to image total blackness (or whiteness) is still to image something.

In fact, I can recall no pain or discomfort, no pitch blackness, or anything.

Where for eternity past there had been warm fellowship and a loving relationship, there was now only broken fellowship, a sense of deep and agonizing loss, a hopeless despair, and the blackness of depravity.

In what is still probably the finest individual insight into his writing, Herman Melville asserted in his great review «Hawthorne and His Mosses» (1850) that «This great power of blackness in him derives its force from its appeals to that Calvinistic sense of innate depravity and original sin, from whose visitations... no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.»

The Book of Lamentations plunges one at once into the tragedy which had overtaken the Jewish people, and without momentary release moves forward through poem after poem descriptive of the blackness of days when

Or are you sick of having the privilege of your whiteness surfaced and challenged by the plight of my (our) collective «blackness?»