Top 1200 Black White Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

I will continue wearing the white hat and black mask until I ride up into the big ranch in the sky.

From about the age of 5, I was aware that I didn't fit. I was the black, atheist kid in the all-white, Catholic school run by nuns. I was an anomaly.

I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One less thing to worry about.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Guns started flying off store shelves just as soon as the black Democrat moved into the White House.

A black entrepreneur has to be equally if not more prepared than a white to get his fair share of loan money.

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

Women and LBGT people have the advantage that they are everybody's son, daughter, cousin, nephew, aunt, uncle. They are in a position to change hearts, and you saw it happen actually. African-Americans, not so much. They are separated from the white oppressive population by geography, housing, segregation, centuries of slavery. There is a tremendous wall between black America and white. I would say you open the door with the force of law, and then you can start to change hearts.

All white people in the United States have benefited from a white supremacy. But does that mean that a white person should be viewed badly because they turn against a white supremacist policy? Just because you've benefited from something shouldn't disable you from repudiating it.

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

Rachel Dolezal stepped down from her position as president of an NAACP chapter after it was revealed that she was a white woman pretending to be black. Now her brother says he knew about it but she asked him not to blow her cover. Unfortunately, her cover had already been blown by God when he made her a blond-haired, blue-eyed white lady.

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.

The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses.

If you can make a color show or movie seem like it's in black-and-white, then you've done a really good job.

We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

What's wrong with Singapore is the idea that things need to be done in a certain way or not at all. Black or white. No room for alternative discussion.

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

It is not, nor will it ever be, white people's responsibility to teach black children our unique American history.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

No one - black, white, or any different - walks away from a three-picture deal with a studio. That's every filmmaker's dream. But it wasn't mine.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don't get too close.

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth ... home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.

As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist.

To her credit, Madam Walker discerned that black women wanted to conform to white Victorian models of beauty. She was aware of the double- sidedness of her products - helping black women appear more European in look, with straight hair - but she always maintained that she was simply selling products that promoted hair growth.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

I was born in Honduras, that's where I was born. I live in California, where no matter what you say, you're Mexican. You understand that? It doesn't matter what you say. See - you don't understand that, white people, because wherever you go, you're white. You're here, you're white. You go to L. A., you're white. You go to Denver, you're white. You go to Miami, you're still white. In L. A. I'm a Mexican, In Florida, I'm a Cuban. In New York, I'm a Puerto Rican. And when I come to Canada and I find out I'm an Eskimo.

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Black, brown, white, yellow - why are we always talking about colors? I'm a girl. I believe in a global community.

For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf

White nationalist, white supremacis feel like this is a watershed moment in the history of white supremacy in which something that had been cordoned off to the kind of white supremacist back waters, an idea like banning all Muslims from coming to the country is going to be .

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional. They're not black and white. That's the gig.

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.

Being someone that grew up in a biracial household I never really felt accepted by black people when I was a little kid, I didn't feel fully accepted by black kids and I definitely didn't feel fully accepted by white kids cause I just felt like I could never be neither one.

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.