“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.” WayIdeasNamesBlackWhiteTalkingSupportColorPaintingPerspectiveProportionBlack And WhiteWorth ItChiaroscuro Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way.” WayWritingMadeAmericaFeltBlackTermDifferencesPositionPerspectiveUniqueAspectFilmmakerSuperiorityLoftySubtlety Author:Ruby Dee
“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.” ThinkingSelfMovingProcessParentDifficultBlackTermWhiteTroubleEventsBrokenPerspectiveSafeJudgmentExpectationsConsciousPerfectionAbsolutesDivorceCriticalBlack And WhiteShockedSelf ConsciousCovenantImmatureUnforgiving Book:Reviving Ophelia Source: Reviving Ophelia
“Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.” MenWorldWayKindTwoSelfAbleCultureSpeakLanguageBlackCommunityWhitePerspectiveRaisedGrandparentAdoptedTwo WaysBipartisan Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I'm a woman of color. I've lived in black neighborhoods all of my life, and most of the time I get hit on in my neighborhood - and mostly by black men. And so I wanted to have my specific experience and my perspective on street harassment out there.” MenWantedBlackStreetsColorPerspectiveNeighborhoodHarassmentStreet Harassment Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
“Being a black filmmaker, one of the things I wanted to do with the movie is make sure I told it from a different perspective. I wanted to take myself out of it as a black male. I wanted to look at this movie through the eyes of Tully, to understand what he was thinking, and feel what he was feeling as much as I could.” ThinkingFeelsLooksDifferentFeelingsEyeWantedBlackPerspectiveMalesFilmmakerThrough The EyesDifferent PerspectiveBlack Males Author:Deon Taylor