Top 1200 Black And White Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

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

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

I am happy to be a role model for anybody - whether they are black, white, yellow, pink or purple.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

Humans have changed the landscape so much, but images of the sea could be shared with primordial people. I just project my imagination on to the viewer, even the first human being. I think first and then imagine some scenes. Then I go out and look for them. Or I re-create these images with my camera. I love photography because photography is the most believable medium. Painting can lie, but photography never lies: that is what people used to believe.

I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

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

There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

[I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.

Even if its a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.

At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.

Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America, beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all types of complexions, but she always was white.And Miss World was always white, and Miss Universe was always white.And the angel fruit cake was the white cake and the devil food cake was the chocolate cake.I said, 'Momma, why is everything white?' I always wondered. And the President lived in the White House.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

We're all complex creatures, and we shouldn't have to pick one thing to be passionate about. Life isn't black and white, so we shouldn't live that way.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Some of white middle America haven't seen a black gay guy in a music video before.

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white.

If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

I love 'The Twilight Zone,' the original black and white ones with Rod Serling's wee bit at the beginning.

The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.

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

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

My father 'Pappy' who is black, is from Galveston and Fort Worth, Texas. My mother, who is white, is from San Diego.

When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.

I've read some things where people are like, 'Beyonce wants to be white' because she has blonde highlights in her hair, but it's ridiculous. You know, she is who she is, and she's a very proud black woman. I know people with natural hair that are the least black inside; you know, it doesn't matter.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.

Perhaps 'photography' has become so all-pervasive that it no longer makes sense to think about it as a discreet practice or field of inquiry. In other words, perhaps 'photography,' as a meaningful cultural trope, is over.

The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.

I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

That sounds like Anthony Soprano. He has a point. I've said it before: if you're black and you sell dope, you end up in the big house; if you're white and you sell a large amount of dope, you end up visiting the White House. So it's a matter of race and it's a matter of scale, frankly.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

When assignments were over, photography continued. One of the primary reasons it did was that I wanted and needed to have fresh work. Also, it's very stimulating to be around non-professional photographers. They're the ones with the purest flame burning about their photography. I appreciate that.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.