“Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.” KnowsWantNeedsHappensBlackInformationAnxietyHolesDataBlack Hole Author:Richard Saul Wurman
“Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.” BigsBlackAnxietyDivingFree Diving Author:Tanc Sade
“I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.” ThinkingProblemCausesBlackAnxiety Author:Ishmael Reed
“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.” PeopleWorldLawBlackHalfWorstEmotionalAnxietyCrisisCanadaImmigrantsManipulationTrendsExploitationHiv Author:Sarah Schulman
“I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.” KnowsWaySchoolMotherGuyFatherBlackWalksStreetsGrewHeroAnxietyRaisedNeighborhoodSegregationMy HeroGreat FatherAll BlackBlack GuysEtcetera Author:Shelby Steele
“Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493” WorldDifferentNightGrowsBlackHurtAnxietyTeethDifferent ThingsInsecurityNighttimeAnxiety And Fear Author:Kate Morton
“Pale, nervous girls with black-rimmed glasses and blunt-cut hair lolled around on sofas, riffling Penguin Classics provocatively. [...] But it wasn’t just intellectual experiences—they were peddling emotional ones, too. For fifty bucks, I learned, you could “relate without getting close.” For a hundred, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner, and then let you watch while she had an anxiety attack.” GirlBlackWatchesRecordsCuttingEmotionalHairAnxietyIntellectualHundredGlassesDinnerNervousRelateFiftyPaleBucksBluntSofasPenguinsPeddlingAnxiety AttacksBartok Author:Woody Allen
“I was walking along a path with two friends - the sun was setting - suddenly the sky turned blood red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety - and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.” TwoFeelingsBlackCitiesSunPathFireBloodSkyWalkingAnxietyMy FriendsRedInfiniteBlueTongueSettingPassingPassingsSettingsScreamExhaustedFenceTremblingPassing ThroughTwo FriendsFjords Author:Edvard Munch
“There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.” KnowsFeelsDreamMightFearUnderstandingBlackMissingAnxietyEmptyHolesCrushExistentialOur DreamsBlack HoleShrouds Author:Jesse Browner