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“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.”

Difficult Black White Periods Black And White Recreation

Author:Alan Parker

“There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.”

Long Has Beens Evil House Fear Difficult Black White Taken Doubt Taught Neighbor Granted Witch Provoking Yards Validity Taken For Granted Unchanging Stampede

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.”

World Way Film Difficult Black White Huge Sells Resistance Around The World Black And White

Author:John Boorman

“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Culture Left Difficult Black Land Broken Connections Stronger South Developing Who We Are Pavement Transplants

Author:August Wilson

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.”

Culture Difficult Black Modern Europe Admire Ancestor Splits Modern Life Inner Life Equilibrium Unstable African Culture

Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor

“But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.”

People Ifs Way Looks Country Happens Difficult Black Term White Poor Class Fairs Access Horrible Black People Working Class Schooling Disparity Incarceration

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.”

Done Difficult Black Hero Argument Hollywood Haitian

Author:Jimmy Jean-Louis

“Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).”

Years Two Difficult Black Broken Ten Husband Shoes Accomplish Dirty Obsessed Pairs Your Husband Sneakers

Book:There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

Source: There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage

“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.”

People Ifs Mean Past Film Difficult Black White Quality Particular Prejudice Assuming Casts Black And White Mean People

Author:Romany Malco

“You're not a Black man. You're a human being in God's eyes. So when you sit down to talk to someone and you talk to them in really intelligent terms, you ask difficult questions, there's a militancy that's assigned to you without you asking for it, because you are simply judged by what you look like. If you're a white person asking the same questions, you'd be one of these CNN guys and say how brilliant he is. That doesn't work for you, because this is the world we live in.”

Ifs Men World Humans Looks Persons Eye Guy Asks Difficult Black Term Human Beings White Intelligent Asking Brilliant Judged Without You Cnn Difficult Questions Militancy

Author:James McBride