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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
Randall Kennedy
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I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.


Charles Barkley
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I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.


Heath Ledger
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
Umberto Eco
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The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.
Roland Martin
There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.
Riz Ahmed
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.


Damian Loeb
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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
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The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
Octavia E. Butler
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I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
Sela Ward
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We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.
Ilyasah Shabazz
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For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.


Linda Chavez
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I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.
Barbara Park
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There are very few really stark black and white stories.


Jim Lehrer
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.


Benicio Del Toro
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.


Fay Godwin
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I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Brene Brown
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It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.


Gisele Bundchen
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This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.


Pauline Hanson