Black And White Quotes

“When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!”
― Ted Grant

“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
― Robert Frank

“What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes — the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
― Michael Palin, Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.”
― Vikrmn, 10 Alone

“In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one's mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey”
― Sweety Shinde, Arjun: Without a Doubt

“When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands—
But the scene is grey.”
― Stephen Crane, The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane

“A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Truth of the Matter

“At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.”
― Caleb Reese

“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, The Sadness of Antonioni: A Novel

“Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.”
― April Mae Monterrosa

“The Scientist’s clear mind sees a foggy world, full of complexity and nuance and messiness, the Zealot’s foggy mind shows them a clear, simple world, full of crisp lines and black-and-white distinctions.”
― Tim Urban, What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

“Bobby was a pretty boy. All looks no substance. Oh you know the kind, on the fringe, never gonna be a roller, but always gonna be the roller’s best friend. Never gonna hit the homerun, but damn sure gonna be happy with the singles, doubles and maybe a few triples.” She shrugged, “that was Bobby Dey-Dey.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

“This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.”
― Werley Nortreus

“That wasn’t fair Sally.”
“Why not? Do you think you can stay self-righteous forever. You needed a little dose of reality.”
“Reality usually doesn’t include aggravated assault, breaking and entering—twice, and illegal surveillance Sally. You did that on purpose.”
― Michael Deeze, The Deathbed Confessions

“Loo, life is black and white. You don't know what's good for you, because you don't see the black and white! You don't see where the black lines end and where the white lines begin! You're going to grow up to be no good if you keep on that way. It's impractical. I only have one child, and I won't have her growing up to be impractical. I can't think of a worse thing to be than impractical!”
― C. JoyBell C., Saint Paul Trois Chateaux: 1948

“Old Bette Davis movies are all she watches now. There’s one where Bette Davis’s character goes blind, and as the credits rolled my mother said, ‘Must be what they mean when they talk about Bette Davis eyes.”
― Jean-Luke Swanepoel, The Thing About Alice

“The most sensual people understand that there are nuances to everything. They get that life isn’t ‘this or that.’ It isn’t dualistic. It’s not black and white, there are so many shades of grey in it.”
― Lebo Grand

“The most colorful thing in the world is black and white; it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, The most colorful thing in the world is BLACK and WHITE. It contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

“He did this often: recited the colors around him, reminding himself that the world was not black-and-white, noting the angles and the shadows and the way light was taken for granted.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Steeping of Blood

“Spiritual does not equate to 'goodness'. The sooner that is understood, the better. It’s much more complex than that.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Сьогодні, коли всі наші системи зразків реакцій поламані, коли в нас немає єдиного розуміння правильних і неправильних виборів, ми користуємося системою чорного та білого. Інші фарби в цю картину ми додамо колись згодом.”
― Володимир Станчишин, Емоційні гойдалки війни. Роздуми психотерапевта про війну

“Black and white is the summer and winter of colors, coinciding.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, The most colorful thing in the world is BLACK and WHITE. It contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

“Diversity is not the problem of humankind. The absence of love and unity is.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“No sugared association is stronger than that between sweetness and femininity. Girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Women are honey, sweetheart, cupcake, candy girl, honey-bunch--- or they're tarts. In the Bible, "The lips of an adulterous woman drip honey" (Proverbs 5:3). Meanwhile, black women have been "caramel," "brown sugar," "mocha latte," "chocolate," and "molasses,"--- both desired and diminished. Making sweet foods is considered women's work--- and eating them is too. Girls receive an Easy-Bake Oven; cake mixes are marketed exclusively to women; home bakers are overwhelmingly female. Candy and chocolate are heavily feminized that a Yorkie bar in the U.K.--- normal chocolate, massive chunks--- until recently stood out by marketing itself as "not for girls."
It's not just in American and European food cultures that this holds true. I spoke to food writer and journalist Mayukh Sen about the gendering of foods within Bengali cuisine. "Sweetness is very much gendered female in Bengali cooking," he explained. "There's a word, mishti, that stands for both Bengali sweets and is also used to describe someone, usually a woman, who is 'sweet' (pleasant, youthful, and nonthreatening/demure)." In Japan, amato and karato refer to those who love sweets and those who prefer salty, savory, and spicy foods, respectively, and yet these labels loosely trace the dividing line between men and women. Jon D. Holtzman writes that a Kyoto-based confectioner--- by all accounts a man who loved his sweets--- assured him that he was more a karato kind of guy: "strong, energetic, and ambitious.”
― Samin Nosrat, The Best American Food Writing 2019

“Our good friend the Leopard still doesn't know that there is no black in man, only shades and shades of gray.”
― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf