Top 1200 Black White Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It's a bummer interracial love is still such a big deal. To me, it's quite normal. I grew up seeing couples that were interracial. Who cares if it's a black guy and white girl, or an Asian guy and white girl, etc.? Odds are, every combo exists out there somewhere so why not put it on the screen? Shouldn't art imitate life?

You can't go wrong mixing classic graphics in black and white. It's very Parisienne.

When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's responsibility, to dismantle the structures that keep white people in positions of power. We do our job to thrive, to survive. To protect ourselves, to sit together and feel better and to heal.

Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

Talking about racism with white people can make white people very uncomfortable, Black people very uncomfortable.

God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

Only in this form of separation the black man is exploited. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.

Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they've been there, too. People open up about their racial experiences. I feel like I'm a walking therapy session. It's quite intense. But it means a lot to people.

My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn't make me any less black or invested in black issues, the same way him being a man doesn't make me any less of a feminist.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage of ethnicity. Activists' constant stress on white privilege can lead to an unhealthy defensive posture of white victimhood.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

Of course Black Lives Matter and the killing of young black boys is heartbreaking to all of us. Everyone knows I am a black mother of a black son, so there is no way I could watch what's happening and not be affected.

As a keeper, you have to understand that your job is black and white: you make a save, or you don't; you can be the hero - or the goat.

If we've endured white Jesus for this long, then folks can endure a Black Duke.

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this had a profound impact on me and soon became my truth. Every friend I had was black; my girlfriends were black. I was seen as black, treated as black, and endured constant overt racism as a young black teenager.

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

I don't believe in democracy. In the second place, neither did our white forefathers. I believe, as they did, in a republican authoritarian republic with a limited electorate - just like the one the writers of our Constitution meant this country to be. When these white Christian patriots sat down to write the Declaration of Independence, there were no black citizens for them to worry about.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

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

Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

On TV, as in life, white folks are allowed to make mistakes, but usually, black people aren't.

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves.

I don't look at things in black and white. There are big gray areas. There's a lot of slippage.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off, and the spears of black energy (Alyss was flattered, her aunt borrowing this idea from her) pinned motionless to the air by Alyss's own white spears with no trouble.

With sports, you get the results back right away. With life, it's not always so black and white.

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

If you are black then you have to be better than your white counterpart to be equal. That's life.

Progressive white teachers seem to say to their black students 'Let me help you find your voice. I promise not to criticize one note as you search for your song'. But the black teachers say 'I've heard your song loud and clear. Now I want to teach you to harmonize with the rest of the world.

A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

I was a black kid in an all-white school, so I had to deal with some of that stress and pressure.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?

...our family is white as far back on the family tree as I've ever looked, and I guess I picture people white white white unless someone tells me otherwise

Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.