In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.
Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.
When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.
I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
Homer Stokes: These boys is not white! These boys is not white! Hell, they ain't even old timey!
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
If there's one thing white men have never had a problem with in this clubby, white marble enclave of Washington, it's getting pulled up the ladder by other men.
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.
I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!
Life can be just black and white, but with imagination, life is a kaleidoscope of exhilarating colors and breathtaking adventures.
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground.
