Black And White famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white. Good and evil? There is no such thing. There is a little good and a evil, a little black and a little white. Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.
-- Akif Pirincci -
Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
-- Alan Parker -
There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.
-- Alec Sulkin -
It's always intrigued me that amidst the group called slaves there were individuals who were extremely able, who were extremely colorful, who were powerful personalities, who by no means fit the usual images of slaves. They were people who, through their personalities and abilities, were very respected in the community where they lived by both black and white.
-- Alex Haley -
It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
-- Alexander Payne -
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow.
-- Alexander Theroux -
When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.
-- Alfred Eisenstaedt -
Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.
-- Alison Bechdel -
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
-- Amy Plum -
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.
-- Andrea diSessa -
I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.
-- Andrea Thompson -
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
-- Andrew Young -
I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.
-- Annette Funicello -
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
-- Annie Lennox -
Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.
-- Ansel Adams -
The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
-- Aristotle -
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there's only grey - no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll pr a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you'll always be you.
-- Arnold Arre -
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
-- Artur Davis -
Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
-- Ashly Lorenzana -
For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.
-- Barnett Newman -
I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
Black and white is how it should be, but shades of grey are the colors I see.
-- Billy Joel -
There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
-- Bob Dylan -
Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
-- Bob Marley -
I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
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.
-- Bradley Cooper -
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something to point it in the right direction. A savior, perhaps. Save us, Chris! You must forgive me. Where have my manners gone. I don't think I've had a chance to formerly introduce myself. You may call me Bray Wyatt. But I have a thousand faces and a million names. Seducer, accuser, destroyer. I am the color red in a world full of black and white, and if you value your ability to breathe, don't get too close. Save us, Chris. Save yourself.
-- Bray Wyatt -
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.
-- Bray Wyatt -
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
-- Brené Brown -
I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
-- Brian Molko -
Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.
-- Bruce Gilden -
It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
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.
-- Carla Gugino -
We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
-- Carlisle Floyd -
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
-- Caroline Knapp -
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones -
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
-- Chris Heimerdinger -
Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?
-- Chrissie Hynde -
Black and white might be sufficient. But why deprive yourself of color.
-- Christian Dior -
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.
-- Christopher Meloni -
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
-- Clarence John Laughlin -
I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
-- Claude Chabrol -
Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.
-- Clyde Butcher -
I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.
-- Collier Schorr -
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
-- Conrad Hall -
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
-- Criss Jami -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
I understand that life is not black and white, everything has a different hand, lots of them, I act according to the situation.
-- Danila Kozlovsky -
Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
-- Danny Boyle -
I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again - and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but I don't really think about it too much.
-- Daphne Guinness -
Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.
-- Dav Pilkey -
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.
-- David Amram -
When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.
-- David Ayer -
Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?
-- David E. Hoffman -
If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.
-- David Heinemeier Hansson -
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.
-- David Lammy -
If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.
-- David Luiz -
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.
-- David Lyons -
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
-- David Mamet -
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.
-- David O. Russell -
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
-- David Sheff -
I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn't me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn't feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there's a lot of ground in between.
-- Dee Rees -
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
-- Desmond Tutu -
At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.
-- Diane Keaton -
Colour is everything, black and white is more.
-- Dominic Rouse -
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
-- Dorothea Lange -
John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he likes to be devil's advocate. Whatever you say, he'll challenge you on.
-- Douglas Brinkley -
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.
-- Dylan Lauren -
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.
-- E. J. Hughes -
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.
-- E. L. James -
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
-- Eden Ahbez -
At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
-- Edward P. Jones -
I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live,
-- Edward R. Murrow -
To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.
-- Eleanor Perenyi -
The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.
-- Elizabeth Noble -
I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge...
-- Ellsworth Kelly -
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
-- Emily Giffin -
I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
-- Erica Jong -
All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better.
-- Ewan McGregor -
Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
-- Fay Godwin -
Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the way we used to be, which is why we're drawn to it.
-- Frank Lentricchia -
In a way, 'Sin City''s designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.
-- Frank Miller -
Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.
-- Frankie Boyle -
Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.
-- Frantz Fanon -
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
-- Fred Savage -
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
-- Gail Collins
