Black And White Quotes

It's not hard to get your way when it's your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they're not around. I don't really like the sound of that, 'cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I'm just very black and white when it comes to my business. There's really no gray area.

~ Nicki Minaj

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

~ Esther Rolle

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

~ Robert Frank

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

~ Gary Ross

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

~ Sam Phillips

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

I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.

~ Masashi Kishimoto

I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.

~ John Van Hamersveld

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

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

~ George R. R. Martin

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

~ Mary Ellen Mark

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

~ Graham Greene

I really see food as subjective. It's a creative outlet. It's something that you do for fun. It's a gray area. It's not black and white or right and wrong.

~ Graham Elliot

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

~ Shakira

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

~ Fay Godwin

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

~ Maeve Binchy

In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fog of gray.

~ Paul Dano

I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There's gold, black and white and they're amazing!

~ Jessica Mauboy

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

The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

~ Campbell Brown

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

~ Louis Aragon

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

~ Judy Garland

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

~ Bill Skarsgard

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

~ Peter Jackson

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.

~ Ellen Greene

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

~ L'wren Scott

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

~ Hans Zimmer

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

~ Oliver Tambo

Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

~ Ridley Scott

When I was a kid, I knew the black and white version of 'Jane Eyre,' and I guess I became interested in the idea of romantic love - of unrequited love and the tragedies of that; of what are the important things in life; what should one value over other materials.

~ Cary Fukunaga

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

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

~ Giancarlo Esposito

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

~ Theodor Adorno

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

~ Andrew Young