“My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.” PeopleIfsWayWantHelpingShowsCareAbleBeautifulBlackWhiteAudienceMirrorsGreenDanceDon't CareI Don't CareDancerPurpleBlack Or White Author:Alvin Ailey
“He[Michael Jackson] had a joy in being alive. There was a joy you felt of him on the stage and making us not just feel good but pushing us against ourselves with the "Man in the Mirror," looking at ourselves critically, "Black or White," what does it mean to get caught in a color as opposed to a rich history and culture?” MenFeelsMeanDoeJoyCultureFeltBlackWhiteRichAliveStageColorHe ManMirrorsCaughtFeel GoodPushingBlack Or WhiteHistory And Culture Author:Cornel West
“Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.” TryingBlackBehindsPiecesMirrorsPaintHungBehind YouVelvet Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul” PeopleLooksI CanSoulSelfReasonProblemTodayFacesYoungBlackWhiteMirrorsWho I AmFatsBeing TrueMy SoulSelf AcceptanceBlack PeopleRapperMexicanSkinnyBecause I CanBlack WhiteI Am Who I AmLooking In The Mirror Author:Tupac Shakur
“Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.” BlackGriefWindowMirrorsHatsAshesHookMirroringWhere You BelongBlack Hats Book:Elegy: poems Source: Elegy: poems
“The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.” HeartSoundBlackStonesMirrorsCricketHush Book:New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012 Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012
“I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.” LooksAgeFearWaitingBlackWhiteHairMirrorsAgingOld AgeParksCoffinsOld LadyBundlesWhite Hair Author:Paddy Chayefsky
“I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.” WayWantLooksStarsBlackWhiteOne ThingMirrorsCompetingFittingBlack Or White Author:Edith Head
“My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.” WayShouldUseBlackNaturalRichConcernTraditionTragedyMirrorsRateTongueFlyingBrandsNativeAbandonHeritageAssociationTailsVelvetImpliedIdiomSecond RateBackdropDocileIllusionists Book:The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated Source: The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated
“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