Top 1200 Black And White Photography Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.

President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

One night I was sick and I watched the old black and white 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' And it freaked me out.

My mom is a beautiful black woman, and my dad is an amazing white man, and I grew up seeing a family.

Black men, we're known for getting into some drama with other black men, specifically black-on-black crime. We're used to the confrontational attitude.

In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.

Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.

I get the feeling that audiences have become mature and they understand that not every character is in black or white. There can be grey shades to it.

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

When you look at me, you can't really tell what I am, but I'm black, white, Native, Spanish, and a little bit of Filipino.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We have two contestants that we call 'blacksperts.' They come on stage and compete in games that I've created that test their knowledge of black culture, black history, and the black experience.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?

I have a very diverse crowd from old, young, black, white, straight, gay. It's a little bit of everybody.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.

Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

Trump is kind of fascinating. I wish he was only seen in black-and-white 'cause he's like a character from the 1890s.

I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were murdered on campus by a rival black nationalist group, the United Slaves Organization. This shook up all the students, black and white, and made us all realize that what we were doing wasn't just an academic exercise, but had repercussions in the real world.

What frustrates me is to see African-Americans behave as though what European-Americans say is worthwhile. It simply isn't. It's just some silly people who can make laws and have the power to enforce them. I'm often amazed at the conversations black people have about themselves. They ought to be having these conversations about white people. It's white people who are flawed and at fault.

I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it?

I like to believe I play tragic heroes - characters that are torn between the good and bad, the black and the white.

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We don't live in a world that nurtures and cares for Black girls like me. And if the world doesn't care about a Black girl like me, then what will happen to our Black babies who grow up to become Black children and Black adults?

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.

There are no black and white, good or bad characters in 'Game Of Thrones,' but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!