Black Or White Quotes - Page 3

• My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Philosophy, Yellow, White

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• It doesn't matter whether you're black or white, practice a different religion, come from a different culture, or have a disability. If you're different from most of the people you're surrounded by, some people might not be as tolerant as they should be.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  White, Practice, People

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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• I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

  Salmon P. Chase

  White, Office, Black

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• All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, War, Book

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

  A. G. Gaston

  Color, White, People

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• Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

  Marjane Satrapi

  White, Evil, Superhero

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• House Music isn't black or white.
  It just is.
  It feels good & it feels right.

  Frankie Knuckles

  White, House, Feel Good

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• What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

  Albert Brooks

  Real, Book, Years

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• Eliminate irrelevant and inaccurate comunications about what it means to be male or female, black or white, young or old, rich or poor, disabled or temporarily able-bodied, or to hold a particular belief system.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Mean, White, Rich Or Poor

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  A world I dream where black or white,
  Whatever race you be,
  Will share the bounties of the Earth
  And every man is free.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Men, Race

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.259, University of Missouri Press

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• Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.

  Vincent Cassel

  Lying, Thinking, White

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• No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human embodiment of national unity and world peace, everyone would have fallen down laughing.

  Froma Harrop

  Knights, Play, White

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• This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English - it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Philosophy, Power, White

  Speech at a Florida Republican dinner, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 28, 1970.

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• Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, White, Boxing

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• I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

  Diego Maradona

  White, Black, Grey

  "Diego Maradona hits out at critics after Argentina qualify for 2010 World Cup". www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2009.

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• The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.

  Roni Horn

  Order, White, Differences

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• I believe I live in a black and white. I think things are like either black or white. I don't really believe that much in the gray. I think that there's gray for a lot of people, but I don't live in the gray. I realize whatever action I have or take, it's going to have a consequence -- either good or bad. So I live my life in a way where I don't have bad consequences. I just notice there's a lot people around me just live in the gray. I don't know, for me, I'm just really straightforward.

  Venus Williams

  Believe, Black And White, Thinking

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• I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Skin Color, White, Black

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• We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Hate, Knowledge

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• I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

  Mos Def

  Mean, Blue, Color

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• Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do no recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.

  Waite Phillips

  Art, Black And White, Color

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  Ashley Benson

  Running, Dirty, Naughty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So many assume the truth is either black or white... It's all evolution or it's totally creation, for example. Reality creates consciousness; consciousness creates reality. Actually truth is inclusive, neither black nor white, nor a shade of grey. Indeed, truth is a multicolored spectrum, a beautiful hologram!

  Peter Shepherd

  Beautiful, Reality, White

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• We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

  Aretha Franklin

  Men, White, Black

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• Be black or white with no shades of gray. In other words, don't be a nagging mother.

  Clinton Anderson

  Mother, White, Black

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