“The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the contrast between it and the black sky was so vivid, it just made this impression of excitement and wonder.” MadeBeautifulBlackWonderImagineSkyMoonImpressionDesertExcitementContrastVividVibrancy Author:Charles Duke
“Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.” PeopleBlackPartyImagineClothesMourningPerpetual Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.” BlackImagineWorstHolesCharacteristicsPessimistGood CharacterBlack Hole Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?” HandsBlackImagineExampleStartingChessCardsDealerPlaying Cards Author:Bobby Fischer
“I think going into space would be like going deep into the ocean, like 5,000 meters down. When you go down that far, it's just awfully black. There's not much there except mud and some particles. I imagine space would be a similar thing. The only difference is you're hoping to bump into some sort of intelligent extraterritorial being.” ThinkingWould BeBlackDifferencesSpaceImagineOceanIntelligentMudParticlesBumpsMeter Author:Ridley Scott
“I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.” Has BeensStoriesShowsAmericaBlackImagineLike MeBalancedTalk ShowsBlack America Author:Al Sharpton
“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.” IfsThinkingSoundBlackCan DoWhiteImagineColorPeriodsSilentBoundsMediumsFilmmakingBlack And WhiteEnteringYou Can Do ItFlexibleSwitching Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.” LooksFacesYoungStrongBlackDestinyImagineFeetFieldsHairPureSixPoundsPrimeTallThickSmoothBrooklynFluidityIndomitableBlack HairCenturions Author:Roger Kahn
“Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."” DoneTurnsCoursesBlackWhiteFictionImagineWeekCrimeSeriesEntertainmentSuspects Author:Richard Dawkins
“When you look at me you don't immediately imagine a very very glamorous icon, so it's only in the theater that I get to do these experiments. I've been an actor about 51 years now. I've played everything from an 8-year-old black boy to a 72-year-old French matriarch, and they hardly hire you to do that on TV.” YearsLooksActorsBlackBoysImagineTvsTheaterExperimentsLook At MeIconsGlamorousBlack BoyMatriarchs Author:Tyne Daly
“For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.” WayLooksBlackImagineModernPopulationBritainGreat SocietyBlack FamilyLbjModern Britain Book:After America: Get Ready for Armageddon Source: After America: Get Ready for Armageddon
“From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.” WantFeelsHelpingLightHappensBlackImaginationWonderImagineBirthOceanPhotographWaveAppearancePrologue Author:Rinko Kawauchi
“As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you.” PeopleBelieveStillsRealProblemAbleBlackPresidentWhiteIssuesImagineLike YouRacismBlack PeopleNo ProblemBetter OffReal Problems Author:Darryl Pinckney
“They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.” PeopleAmericaPastBlackImagineDangerousEncountersBlack PeopleImperfectImagine That Author:Christine Jennings
“You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.” PeopleTryingMadeInspirationTodayBlackMistakeImagineMovementHip HopHopefullyHipsHopsMade A MistakeTrying To ChangePanthersBlack Panther Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“fter the O.J. Simpson trial there was talk about how the country was splitting in two - one part black, one part white. It was ludicrous: typical gringo arrogance. It's as though whites and blacks can imagine America only in terms of each other. It's mostly white arrogance, in that it places whites always at the center of the racial equation.” TwoCountryAmericaBlackTermWhiteImagineTrialsArroganceTypicalEquationsSplitting Author:Richard Rodriguez