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“It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.”

World Important Would Be Black White Color Easier Clothes Brown Black And White

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”

Shows Kids School Parent Black Clothes Sticks Giants Vegetarian Sandwiches Tofu Celery

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.”

Two States Guy Turns Black Mines College Huge Degrees Clothes Green Texas Funeral One Time Cop Vans Buddy Motorcycle Shorts Road Trip Getting Laid Cadillacs Pull Ups Two Guys

Author:John Travolta

“Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It was black on the outside. Tuxedos and tail coats were black and they were a man's finest, most expensive clothes. You had to use pepper to make most meats and vegetables fit to eat. The most flavorsome pepper was black. The best caviar was black. The rarest jewels were black: black opals, black pearls.”

Men Use Black Fit Clothes Woods Hardest Meat Expensive Vegetables Tails Finest Coats Pearls Jewels Virginia Ham Peppers Caviar Tuxedos Opal Expensive Clothes Black Pearl

Author:Ann Petry

“Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.”

People Black Party Imagine Clothes Mourning Perpetual

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Might Bits Black Color Clothes My Time Funeral Black People

Book:South Riding

Source: South Riding

“Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.”

Should Humans Two Black Clothes Pants Leather Roger Leather Pants

Author:Edith Head

“Always underdress. The goal is not to look as if you made an effort for the particular event. If you can dress for a different party (i.e., wear black tie to a cocktail party, or tennis clothes for lunch), so much the better. You give the impression of being much in demand.”

Ifs Giving Looks Made Different Goal Black Party Effort Events Particular Demand Clothes Dresses Impression Ties Tennis Lunch Cocktails Cocktail Parties Black Tie

Author:Lisa Birnbach

“A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.”

Needs Three Black Dark Clothes Green Add My Favorite Pounds Inches Fifteen Gowns Trimming

Author:Buwei Yang Chao

“I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.”

People Want Looks Long Sometimes Used Black Behinds Hair Clothes Fringe Shields Lashes Long Hair Nocturnal Short Hair

Author:Bat for Lashes

“Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.”

Ifs Black Clothes Dirty Shirts Cash Worn All Black

Author:G-Eazy

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

Source: The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.”

People Years Firsts Two Wanted Certain Sound Black Natural Dark Careers Cutting Color Hair Clothes Red Lips Communicate Labels Two Years Restraint Lipstick Hair Dye

Author:Rihanna

“Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.”

Black Clothes Charity Shops Load Costumes Bizarre Outfits Abba

Author:Suzanne Shaw