Top 1200 Black Or White Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I'm more black than I am white. That's the accurate answer from my truth.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.

I make and wear black and white for myself because it centers me.

There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

If Theresa May is a white woman who is very well-educated and very wealthy, she's more likely to act in the interests of, say, a very wealthy white man than she is a working class poor black or immigrant woman.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.

I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

I think that it would be more true to life, true to the Bible. I wouldn't have a problem with a black man playing Jesus. Being born in that part of the world, he would be more close to being black than white anyway. Although what he did transcended all races.

I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a certain way. I don't see anything wrong with white kids wanting to go to school with white children, or black kids wanting to go to school with black kids.

South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying "he is teaching hatred."

Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

There's nothing as a Christian black man that I fear that the average white male wouldn't.

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I'm proud of both.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

Simple black-and-white thinking or action is always going to be problematic.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that lots of black and white artists, when race is a subject matter, they put race or the ideology around race first. They don't see the person and the complications of the human being.

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

I'm a black-and-white type of dude. If you say something, I believe you're gonna do it.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I was the black atheist kid in the all-white Catholic school run by nuns.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

In America, a black man has to feel like he's God just to make it a little bit when white people can just feel human. They can just be themselves, but for me, I feel we have to start instilling that back into our people. That pride. That black power. That privilege to be alive.

Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

Real life is never black and white why must the movies be?