Welcome to my riddle! Or I guess by now you're already partway there to it.
By now you have realized that the emojis are binary, and that the whites are 0s and the blacks are 1s.
01101000 gargantuan
01101111 badger
01110011 frigid
01101111 hearty
01100101 echoed
01110110 unencumbered
01100101 nutmeg
01100001 query
01110111 jejunum
01101001 waitlist
01110011 xenon
01110101 cabal
01101101 malice
01110111 opulent
01101110 karma
01110100 redacted
01100101 virtuous
01101000 periwinkle
01101111 Tai (me :))
01110110 dabbled
01111001 abject
01101100 stricken
But what does the binary mean? ;)