Top 1200 Black And White Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

... 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?