- Nov 07, 2020
Black and White Quotes
Where clarity ends and nuance begins.
These lines explore the appeal of seeing things plainly, like a character sheet that lays out every skill without ambiguity. Related reading is in Clarity.
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- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way. It's very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make are the gold and the beautiful stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
War's not black and white; it's gray. If you don't fight in the gray area, you're going to lose.
- Dismantling
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- Nov 07, 2020
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
- Nov 07, 2020
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not move into developing or processing color. I stayed with black and white. I still think to this day that I prefer to work in black and white if it has to do with poetry or anything other than specific reality. I have worked in color when I thought it was the appropriate way to express the thought that I was working on.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020