“Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.” ThinkingLongFallBlackShadowCastsTemperatureUnforgivingChilly Author:Richard K. Morgan
“Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?” MenHandsWaitingBlackJusticeChanceMurderLuckCastsShadeFurySlaughterPerdition Book:The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.” IfsMenMayProblemActorsSocialBlackWhiteRaceClassStagePositionEvolutionWeightCastsProductionsExecutivesMixing Author:Howard Schultz
“Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn’t.” WayHandsBlackLeaderCastsDirtyBoltsStoic Author:Charles Soule
“They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.” LightWantedBlackStepsSupportBrokenMassWindowCastsGlassesPatternsHeavyStrikesShadeRoofMoonlightLanesPillarsSpookyRuggedLanterns Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
“When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?” LongGodLastsNightReligionFaithUniverseBlackCastsIsraelLiftsVeilsGloom Author:Jean Racine
“Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.” MenFirstsLittlesBlackRaceLordPicksSpeciesCastsRingsHoneyBeardDianaHepburnAudrey Author:Robin Williams
“I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.” FeelsWellsEndsPainWishBlackLossColorHollywoodCastsThe End Of The DayOh WellLabelingLove Loss Author:Taraji P. Henson
“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.” WorldWritingTryingLittlesDreamRealityBlackMy OwnWhiteReaderUnderstoodAbsolutesMirrorsComplexesCastsHonestlyHopefullyBlack And WhiteDream WorldAmbivalent Author:Andre Dubus
“The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.” PeopleWorldMindHumansMayDoeDifferentHelpingShowsFilmGoalBlackDifferencesHuman BeingsWhiteCommonRolesWatchesTelevisionUltimateCastsGangUltimate GoalCultural Differences Author:Mekhi Phifer
“It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.” ReasonDoneSchoolBlackWhiteCastsSupposed To Be Author:Dane DeHaan
“It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.” PeopleIfsMeanPastFilmDifficultBlackWhiteQualityParticularPrejudiceAssumingCastsBlack And WhiteMean People Author:Romany Malco