Top 1200 Black And White Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

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

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

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

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

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

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

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

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

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

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

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

As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.

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

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.'

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

If I can relate the black experience to white people, then they can understand us better and not be so afraid.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

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

Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?

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

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.

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

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

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

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?'

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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