diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/default.nix
index 5708a17d6f0..4c00657df14 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 , buildPythonPackage
 , pythonOlder
 , fetchFromGitHub
-, black
 , jinja2
 , poetry-core
 , round
@@ -38,13 +37,14 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   patches = [
     # The build-system section is missing
     ./build_poetry.patch
+    ./remove-black-requirement.patch
   ];
 
   checkInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];
 
   # Despite living in 'tool.poetry.dependencies',
   # these are only used at build time to process the image resource files
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ black inkscape imagemagick jinja2 poetry-core round ];
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ inkscape imagemagick jinja2 poetry-core round ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ graphviz ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/remove-black-requirement.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/remove-black-requirement.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..dcf9b4d2ad1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/diagrams/remove-black-requirement.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
+index acbcacb..1f60b83 100755
+--- a/autogen.sh
++++ b/autogen.sh
+@@ -21,11 +21,6 @@
+   exit 1
+ fi
+ 
+-if ! [ -x "$(command -v black)" ]; then
+-  echo 'black is not installed'
+-  exit 1
+-fi
+-
+ # preprocess the resources
+ for pvd in "${providers[@]}"; do
+   # convert the svg to png for azure provider
+@@ -55,7 +50,3 @@
+ # Generate doc for custom module
+ echo "generating the docs for custom"
+ python -m scripts.generate "custom"
+-
+-# run black
+-echo "linting the all the diagram modules"
+-black "$app_root_dir"/**/*.py