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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 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

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

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. — Bobby Fischer

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. — Berry Gordy

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin. — Albert Camus

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had. — Fredrik Backman

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American. — Darnell Lamont Walker

People want black-and-white answers, but Scripture is rainbow arch across a stormy sky. — Sarah Bessey

In life, you learned that not all white people are racist, not all black folks are criminals, let's admit it and love one another.. — Werley Nortreus

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color? — Bobby Fischer

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone

You got black people in an all-white country and they don't know nothing about themselves. — Muhammad Ali

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me. — Penn Jillette

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people. — Coretta Scott King

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children? — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. — Mark Haddon

Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red. — Brandon Sanderson

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. — Nikki Giovanni

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad. — Jewel

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. — Ralph Abernathy

Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group. — Charles Barkley

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full. — Darnell Lamont Walker

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

How much easier life would be if people were all black or all white and how much simpler it would be to act in regard to them! — W. Somerset Maugham

Most people feel weird about white heels, but I love them and wear them with everything, especially when I need to mix up an all-black outfit. — Katherine Schwarzenegger

Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care. — Marlon James

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people. — Dinesh D'Souza

I do not think this is so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we are all the same; we are just people. — Alexander McCall Smith

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white. — Juan Williams

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white. — Damian Loeb

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate. — Jasmine Guy

You don't see black and white. You see gray. People aren't all good and bad. You have a way of bringing out the good. — Denise Grover Swank

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem. — Angela Bassett

Do they know I'm black?" I ask. "I thought you were biracial." To most white people, black and biracial are the same thing. — Gisele Walko

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white. — Bethany McLean

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

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people? — Sister Souljah

I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices. — Lee Daniels

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people. — Patti LaBelle

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? — Jared Diamond

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so. — Michael Palin

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

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one. — Redd Foxx

The world's black and white, good and bad, no matter what you hear. The people who say it isn't have already chosen black. — Loren D. Estleman

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts. — William Wells Brown

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?' — Fleur East

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh. — Cecily McMillan

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray. — Gish Jen

Television isn't black and white anymore, and neither are people — William Todd

The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them. — Michael McKean

All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing — Wendy Mass

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W.E.B. Du Bois

Why does everyone have to be so cool all the time? And also why do white people always have to act like black people to avoid looking like dorks? — Sarah Miller

Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order". — Fannie Lou Hamer

Some people hurt themselves with a blade and others do it with poisonous thoughts — Dee Juusan

Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. — Charles Hamilton Houston

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much. — Steve Nash

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. — Chris Heimerdinger

When I was very young I couldn't watch anything black and white on TV because I knew the people moving were now dust. — Dave Eggers

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right. — Common

Some people live such boring lives,its black and white,so dead! I choose to color my life with Fun, some blue some green,some red.-RVM — R.v.m.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority. — George Lopez

When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist. — Trevor Noah

When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call it camping. — Carlos Mencia

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it. — Hannibal Buress