A Quote by Barkha Dutt

Politics, by definition, is risk averse. Perhaps that's why America was so awestruck when Barack Obama ended the Black vs White debate by painting his political canvas in shades of grey.

Barkha Dutt

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Barkha Dutt
Indian - Journalist
Born: December 18, 1971

Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar by his silver hand of office. Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth.

George R. R. Martin

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

Bill Henson

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

John Baldessari

As was demonstrated back in 2012, [Barack] Obama was thought to be in big trouble after that first debate, and he wasn't, was he? That first debate didn't end up hurting Barack Obama at all, did it? I know he had incumbancy on his side, but still. He was horrible that first debate. It didn't matter because there were two more, and there are two more here.

Rush Limbaugh

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

Tami Hoag

Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey.

Nicky Morgan

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

Frankie Boyle

Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.

Elizabeth Noble

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Billy Joel

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Rebecca Solnit

I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

Gwen Ifill

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

Kate Mosse

Remember the first debate between [Mitt] Romney and [Barack] Obama? Let's revisit it for a second. It's interesting to note the way the Drive-Bys played it. The first Romney-Obama debate, there was real concern after that debate that Obama didn't show up.

Rush Limbaugh

I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.