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“If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.”

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.”

People Has Beens War Real Happens Sound Black White Color Real Life Combat Black And White Vivid Sensory Overload

Author:David Ayer

“The Christmas just before I turned four, my parents bought me a pair of little black skates and the Bay of Quinte was frozen and my two sisters took me out there and held my hands and taught me to skate. Now I don't know if this is true - although it sounds good! - but rumour has it by the end of the day they couldn't keep up with me.”

Ifs Knows Littles Two Ends Hands Parent Sound Black Four Taught The End Of The Day Pairs Frozen Skates Rumours Two Sisters

Author:Bobby Hull

“Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.”

Knows Want May Two Matter Sound Black Opinion Groups Dare Propaganda Black Women Controversial Ominous

Book:A Colored Woman in a White World

Source: A Colored Woman in a White World

“Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?”

Firsts Play Able Sound Black Differences White Emotion Music Color Picks Down And Notes Paint Guitar Extremes

Author:Les Paul

“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”

People Knows Writing Trying Kind May Use Dream Speak Language Sound Black Ability Race Taken Pieces Ten Tradition Twenties Tongue Black People Multiplicity Speaking In Tongues

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“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.”

Heart Sound Black Stones Mirrors Cricket Hush

Book:New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Source: New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

“People tend to believe that I want to make soul music, which is not entirely untrue but, really, I want to be like the black Tom Waits - I don't want to make one kind of sound.”

People Want Believe Kind Soul Waiting Sound Black Toms Untrue Music Soul

Author:Willis Earl Beal

“I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.”

Wells May Littles Sound Black Really Pretty

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“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

“I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.”

Ifs Thinking Sound Black Can Do White Imagine Color Periods Silent Bounds Mediums Filmmaking Black And White Entering You Can Do It Flexible Switching

Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“It was shocking to see Nirvana play, because it was like, "Here's this little guy with a monster-guitar sound." And it was heavier than Black Sabbath. That was shocking.”

Littles Play Guy Sound Black Guitar Monsters Shocking Sabbath Black Sabbath Guitar Sound

Author:Billy Corgan

“When people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.”

People Firsts Desire Guy Sound Black White Shakes White Guys

Author:Frankie Laine

“Life is much more complex than the black-and-white sound bites that you get on television. There are nuances and shades of gray.”

Life Is Sound Black White Television Complexes Gray Shade Bites Black And White Nuance Sound Bites Shades Of Gray

Author:Joe Berlinger