Best dark & white Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.”

People Age Earth Humanity Dark White Levels Buddhism Noise Dark Ages White Noise

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”

Earth Stars Dark White Fire Bed Rivers Stones Seeds Remembered Pockets Skirts Arranging

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“Painting it was hard graft. There are one and a half large tubes of white in the ground - yet that ground is very dark.”

Hard Dark White Half Painting Difficulty Tubes

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“To travel like a bird, lightly to view | Deserts where stone gods founder in the sand, | Ocean embraced in a white sleep with land; | To escape time, always to start anew... | Hooded by a dark sense of destination... | Travelers, we're fabric of the road we go; We settle, but like feathers on time's flow.”

Light Dark Sleep White Views Land Ocean Bird Flow Stones Desert Settling Sand Destination Founders Fabric Traveler Feathers Starting Anew

Book:The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

Source: The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis

“We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.”

Courses Stuff Bits Dark White Party Trouble Shadow Tiny Heal Ignorant Tea Primitive White Supremacy Tea Party Supremacy Weird Stuff

Author:Anne Lamott

“If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Has Beens House President Dark White Forever New York Theory Vices White House Conspiracy Irrational New York Times Vice President Conspiracy Theory

Author:Kate O'Beirne

“You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That is the chocolate I am talking about.”

Dark White Talking Drink Chocolate Milk Delicious Dark Chocolate

Author:Ray Nagin

“The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.”

Thinking Men Believe Guy Fighting Dark White Novel One Thing Couple Kings Desert Hats Biblical Apocalypse

Author:Patton Oswalt

“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

“Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!”

Lying Dark White Air Sky Middle Creatures Fairs Silent Speed Graves Snow Height Streams Lakes Haste Frail Fling Gazing Flakes

Author:William C. Bryant

“The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.”

Trying Dark White Views Conscious Areas Monsters Unconscious Drag Lit Psychiatry Ankles Marshes

Book:Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

Source: Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994

“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.”

Dark White Christmas Neighborhood Santa Santa Claus Funny Christmas Short Christmas Believe In Santa Believing In Christmas Father Christmas

Author:Dick Gregory

“So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.”

People World Years Dark White Century Singing Died Dancing Snow Snow White Singing Dancing

Book:The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

Source: The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff, Creator of the Christmas Revels

“Pain is like a new room in your house that you never knew you had. If you had known, you would have bolted and locked the room past any entering. But truly, it is a room like any other, four glaring white walls and a dark hard floor, and if you don't try to get out, it is possible to remain in it. Once you tried to get out, you ... couldn't ... stand ... it. Don't think of getting out.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Hard Pain Past House Dark White Rooms Known Four Wall Locked Entering White Walls

Book:Seed of Mischief

Source: Seed of Mischief

“The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.”

Giving May Light Dark White Liberty Sky Conscience Skins Slavery Slave Deny White Skin

Author:Roman Baldorioty de Castro

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools”

Fall Water Dark White Behinds Fool Quiet Silent Woods Forests Leafs Lap Ants Polished Deserted Harbour

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.”

Thinking Young Choices Culture Black Dark White Novel Reader Adults Absolutes Young Adult Defined Gray Shade Satisfying Black And White Shades Of Gray

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”

Ifs Mean Grows Dark White Higher Citizens Protect Highest Safety Rounds Saint Necks Feminine Throat Conventions Worn Committees Public Life Obscene Ribbons Crimson Public Safety Inversions

Author:Hilary Mantel

“But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.”

Men Dark White Terrible Winter Dare Our Time Pristine Terrible Day

Author:will.i.am

“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Knows Writing Littles Felt Dark White Consciousness Known Sea Creating Fearless Beach Sand Hopeful Insecure Launching White Sand

Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977

Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977

“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”

Faces Black Nature Dark White Behinds Sun Fire Blood Changed Red Rivers Filled Winter Forests Ships Ruins Substance Yards Eastern Mist Marshes Masts Winter Days

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.”

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“When Americans look out on the world, they see nothing but dark and menacing strangers who appear to have no sense of rhythm at all, nor any respect or affection for white people; and white Americans really do not know what to make of all this, except to increase the defense budget.”

People Knows World Looks Dark White Increase Affection Stranger Defense Rhythm Budgets

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark”

Night Stars Dark White Lovely Breasts Starks Dark Night

Book:Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)

Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)

“While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.”

Men Leadership Dark White Race Pride Proud March Yield White Man Impetus Misgivings

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.”

Thinking Men Wells Kind Ends Dark White Comedy Focus Capable Down And Clean Come Up The End Of The Day Twisted Lilies Dark Twisted

Author:Brian Regan

“I've always loved black, and I realized that, from the beginning, man went into completely dark caves to paint. They painted with black too. They could have painted with white because there were white stones all over the ground, but no, they chose to paint with black in the dark.”

Men Black Dark White Stones Paint I Realized Caves

Author:Pierre Soulages

“The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.”

Way I Can Reason Home Light Night Guy Dark White Risk Doors Special Percent Sight Bottom Combination Kicks Bad Guys Eighty Kicking Entrances Rail Warrants Lasers White Light High Risk

Author:Steven Seagal

“For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.”

Ifs Enough Body Faces Dark White Unnecessary

Author:Junichiro Tanizaki

“Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.”

Ifs World War Facts Dark White Race Masters Ideals Pacifism White Race

Author:Oswald Spengler

“If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.”

Ifs Writing May Persons Eye Black Dark White Race Fiction Talking Color Skins Blue Appearance Etc Not Talking Blue Eyes Black Or White Black Eyes Physical Appearance Dark Skin

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."”

Writing Real Character Dark White Race Sea Lucky Conscious Continents Outsiders Portuguese Main Characters

Author:Jon Weisman

“This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.”

People Certain Term Dark White Levels Color Skins Impact Privilege Dedicated Closeness Ranking Skin Color

Author:Toni Morrison

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