Top 1200 Black And White Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people.

No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?

The idea that a person can be both black and white - and at the same time neither - is novel in America.

The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

I had an uncle who adored Al Green. He was white, but he only listened to black music.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

People are going to always have their opinions whether you date a black man or not. I've had girlfriends, family members comment on black men that I've dated as well as white people. People want to see what they want to see. And if anybody doesn't fit that picture they're going to be like, 'Yeah, I didn't see you with him.'

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of really doing what we ought to do based on having been attacked, they put Martin Luther King on television. He was always saying, "We must use nonviolence. We must overcome hate with love." White people loved that. That's why they gave him a Nobel Prize. But when Martin Luther King started condemning the Vietnam War, that's when white people turned against him.

There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

I believe there is no more creative medium than photography to recreate the living world of our time. Photography gladly accepts the challenge because it is at home in its element: namely, realism - real life - the now.

I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

As the possibilities for straightforward photography seem to have become exhausted it has been the photographers who know about the history of art, not simply the history of photography, who have shaped important directions for the future.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.

I try to emulate the Lynn Swanns, and the John Jeffersons and the fact they're black or white has nothing to do with it.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.

Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.

Growing up, there was this explosion of B television. 'Fresh Prince of Bel Air,' you have 'Family Matters,' 'A Different World.' I had examples - of black children, black families, black women, black men - that represented who I was.

Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people in one minute, and they don't call it "white exploitation." They win awards and get into all the magazines. But if black people do it, suddenly it's different than if a white person does it. People respond differently because people come from different places.

Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.

Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

I felt that the moral side of 'Black and White' was slightly confused. That's why I want the world to be in turmoil.

I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Here is a paradox. It would seem that there cannot be surrealism and photography, but only photography or surrealism.