Quotes and Sayings About Black And White
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.
-- Akif Pirincci -
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
-- Alan Parker -
There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.
-- Alec Sulkin -
It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.
-- Alex Haley -
It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
-- Alexander Payne -
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.
-- Alexander Theroux -
When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
-- Amy Plum -
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.
-- Andrea diSessa -
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
-- Andrea Thompson -
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
-- Andrew Young -
I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
-- Annette Funicello -
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
-- Annie Lennox -
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
-- Ansel Adams -
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
-- Aristotle -
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.
-- Arnold Arre -
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
-- Artur Davis -
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.
-- Barnett Newman -
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
-- Billy Joel -
There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
-- Bob Dylan -
Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
-- Bob Marley
