Top 1200 Black White Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have a perhaps naive point of view informed by my own kind of snowflake-in-the-unique-sense rather than the political sense, personal story. I mean I feel like my experiences are so hard to map onto any kind of generalized identity. For example, I'm a black person, but I come from a very particular black experience which is not unlike the experience of the Barack Obama. I have an African mother and a white father and I feel like I have a different experience of being a black person as a result of that identity than someone who is from the descendants of slaves.

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

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

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.

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.

Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small.

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

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

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.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

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

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

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans.

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

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 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.

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

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

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

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

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.

Obviously, I'm not not black. But this is one thing I do know after years and years of working with a lot of black players and black commentators on many networks: That if you go to the place of you're telling a black man, or a black woman, that 'You should know your place and stay in it,' when you get to there, them's fighting words.

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.

I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

Everybody in the working class is important, whether you're black or white and that's what I want them to feel and know from Our Revolution.

I thought my teeth were white until I washed my face with Noxzema. My teeth are off-white. I'm not even white. I'm off-white. It's a new race; we will prevail!

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

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

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

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.

'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.

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine being from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, people might say you're black but your features are so non-black, like you've got straight hair, you've got like a sharper nose, or such.

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

'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

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.

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

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

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

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

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.

Since the white man says he came from the evolution of animals, well, maybe the black man didn't. The white man has made so many errors in the handling of people that maybe he did come from a gorilla or a fish and crawl up on the sand and then into the trees. Of course, evolution doesn't take God into consideration. I don't think people learned to do all the things they do through evolution.

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

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.