Black Quotes - Page 66

The art of publicity is a black art.

Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

I'm racist against non-black people.

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes.

Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print.

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

I'm racist? How can that even be possible? I was a friend of Michael Jackson's back when he was black.

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.