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The blast that swept him came off New Hampshire snow-fields and ice-hung forests. It seemed to have traversed interminable leagues of frozen silence, filling them with the same cold roar and sharpening its edge against the same bitter black-and-white...

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance...

Black Skin, White Masks

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the ...

Black Swan, White Raven

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king in it is always a fairy tale. But remember, this comes from a time when kings were as common ...

Black Swan, White Raven

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One...

Half of a Yellow Sun

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but th...

In Patagonia

We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come second—compare the parallel in painting, where the most beautiful colours laid on without order will not give one...

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. However, he did hope they would not relocate to any areas of Texas that he likes to frequent.

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

Lesra: The man's innocent. And he's been in jail fifteen or sixteen years. It's not right. Terry Swinton: I know that's what his book says. Sam Chaiton: Two juries found him guilty, Les. Lesra: Two white juries. Lisa Peters: Hey, hey. Not all white p...

The Hurricane

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Das Kapital/Das kommunistische Manifest

Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.

The Green Mile

The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.

The Book Thief

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Business Doctors: Management Consulting Gone Wild

I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

Ledisi

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

The Jaded Hunter

Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?

Whiteman

I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.

Christina Hendricks

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

Robin Morgan

No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?

Nas

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

Susan Estrich

After Obama became president, I realized that black people could not have put him in the White House - it had to be a collective effort of everybody in the country.

Tyler Perry