“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
“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.” MenChildrenMadeCountryGrowsSidesBlackDifferencesWhiteRaceClassGrowing UpInfluenceFootballHeroRacismDignityRelationImpactSilentWoodsSoccerAnalysisKicksColourCommentStereotypeTigersRace RelationsTribute Author:Pete Gill
“There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property.” PeopleKnowsBelieveBookReasonAgeFormI BelieveBlackWealthRelationPropertyChemicalsDiamondCommodityCoalBlack Diamonds Book:Victory Source: Victory
“I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsKindPlaySeemsAmericaPastOrderBlackOne ThingConnectionsRelationHistoricalDetermineWho We AreOur Past Author:August Wilson
“In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.” KnowsChildrenBlackRelationStampsSegregationRace RelationsI Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area.” TryingProblemBlackLinesRaceAreasRelationIndianRace RelationsOld DaysAmerican IndianLegitimacy Author:Rod Serling
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.” TryingYearsFallBlackEffortRacePeriodsSummerShotsRelationPoliceChiefsRebellionProgressiveFalling ApartVariationRace RelationsRiotMayorsDetroitFergusonUnraveling Author:David Maraniss
“Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.” PeopleMatterLawLyingSidesBlackPresidentCommunityWonderfulWorstMediaFinePercentRelationPoliceTerroristBarackPlusCopNinetyBlack Lives MatterPresident Barack ObamaThugBlack Lives Author:Ted Nugent
“A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that I've used in a lot of paintings. The essay is from the mid-'50s, when he's moved to Switzerland to work on a novel, and he finds himself the only black man living in a tiny Swiss village. He even says, "They don't believe I'm American - black people come from Africa." The essay is not only about race relations, but about what it means to be a stranger anywhere.” PeopleMenBelieveMeanBlackNovelPaintingRelationMovedStrangerBlack PeopleEssays Author:Glenn Ligon
“In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.” ThinkingDoneBlackTermFitRelationAmerican History Author:Tom Waits
“Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?” KnowsWellsMightAgeAmericaGirlBlackWhiteRaceNovelRelationComing Of AgeSurvivorCommentRace RelationsRoommateBlack GirlWhite Girl Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.” IfsFeelingsWould BeBlackWhiteAcceptingRelationBlack And WhiteVocal Author:Sarah Silverman
“The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.” HumansUsedStrongBlackAnswersRedRelationCookingViolentReactionsContradictionChemicalsBoresCompositionRefusalSpicesSauceTeaseHuman RelationshipsPeppersKetchupSoybeansBlack Pepper Author:Anais Nin
“Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.” WorldBlackWhiteFashionIdentityNegativeRelationMalesSeekingRefuseContemporaryDefinedStereotypeMasculinityWhite SupremacySupremacyVisibilityCategorizationBlack MalesNegative Stereotypes Book:We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity Source: We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
“...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.” TwoPlayHappensActionLawTurnsGamesWinningBlackDealsMoralBreakPsychologyPositionPlanetsDrawsEthicsRedRelationDeterminedChessCardsWinnerSolar SystemInfantile Author:G. E. M. Anscombe