On page 333, Gilroy notes that Edmund Burke associates the darkness of the sublime with "... the blackness of a black woman's skin." 

The photograph here of Zora Hurston conveys the strength in this statement.  She directs her gaze at her audience with uncompromising confidence and honesty.  She is the sublime image of power and mystery that reflects in her posture and in her manner.  The beauty here is not one of fierceness, but quiet independence, a knowing of who she is in relation to the world.  This sort of settled quality is unmovable and unstoppable.  She represents all that is strong not only in black women, but in all women.