“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.” HumansSeemsGuyHumanityUniverseBlackChurchHuman BeingsMysteryFrontsBuddhismOrdinaryInclination Author:Frederick Lenz
“Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!” DoeFormBlackWhiteSkyPhotographyOrdinaryRelationBlueMessToneColourYellowPlatesLensesSunflowerTravesty Author:Walter J. Phillips
“If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.” PeopleIfsWorldBlackSuccessfulThis WorldOrdinaryExtraordinaryBlack PeopleStanding Out Author:Tyler Perry
“There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.” MenKindStillsDifferentCharacterRunningIndividualBlackFeetMankindOrdinaryEnglandNakedBusCostumesDifferent CharactersSudan Author:Evelyn Waugh
“If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.” PeopleIfsBlackSuccessfulOrdinaryExtraordinaryBlack People Author:Tyler Perry
“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.” WayYearsMatterLightFilmBlackTermBreakWeekPaperLowsOrdinaryHundredCamerasComplicatedOne WayBreaking DownSimplestExposureSpoilExposing Author:Jonathon Keats
“Even though the play [ The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.” PeopleMenWayFeelsWellsKindLittlesLongStillsEndsPlayCharacterSeemsHappensFunBlackWhitePoorAcceptingStruggleRichWrittenModernLong TimeOrdinaryProductionsRingsContemporaryAll KindsBest ThingsBellsLong Time AgoSimilarityRecessionsGreat DepressionGrandpaBlack Or WhiteRich Or PoorAccentuateLoving FamilyGreat Recession Author:Chris Hart
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.” PeopleBlackRaceLeaderBabyCallingOrdinaryInstitutionsPatternsBarackTargetBlack PeopleAcceptableFoxesMamaFear MongeringBaby Mama Author:Nas
“The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.” KnowsHumansLooksLittlesHas BeensBookEndsMatterBigsTruthEnergyBlackSpaceKnow HowDoorsTruth IsMassOrdinaryHolesCollectionsRelevantShelvesOld FashionedEquationsBad DayBlack HoleBookshopsStairwaysPower Of KnowledgeEscher Author:Terry Pratchett
“jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.” LongSaidDoneEvilBlackClothesOrdinaryCleanExpensiveAdsCoatsJaceTrenchesStylishWoolTrench Coats Author:Cassandra Clare