“In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?” MindMeanArtEyeLanguageBlackWhiteExpressionReturnDrawingAcceptedConventionsBlack And WhiteConventionalAccustomedTranslationsObligedBeholder Author:Eugene Delacroix
“An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.” IfsDoeBlackSpaceEventsReturnSolutionsComplicatedHolesHorizonElectricityBendingBlack HoleEvent HorizonMagnetismElectricity And Magnetism Author:Michio Kaku
“Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a brief time and returns home. His fake ghetto books have bought him a townhouse in Gramercy Park and home on Staten Island.” WritingMadeBookHomeBlackReturnSpeechFortuneFakeIslandsParksGhettoCab Author:Ishmael Reed
“I'm sure no intelligent white person, in his or her right white mind, want black men and women marrying their white sons and daughters and in return introducing their grandchildren to half brown, kinky haired black people.” PeopleMenWantMindPersonsBlackWhiteHalfSonReturnDaughterMen And WomenIntelligentBrownBlack PeopleIntroducingGrandchildrenMarryingKinkySon And Daughter Author:Muhammad Ali
“There's a more experimental album that follows that, which is like Black Magic and While You Were Sleeping. Then there's a return to jazz, For All We Know and Yesterday I Sang The Blues. It wasn't like a planned thing, I just kind of realized it when I made a list of my albums. Like, oh wow, this is exactly what I did before.” KnowsKindMadeBlackSleepMagicReturnJazzAlbumsListsYesterdayWowBlack Magic Author:Jose James
“It is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe - that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children...” IfsFeelsBelieveChildrenMovingBlackChanceWhiteForeverSkyReturnShapesNewsSurpriseBlack And WhiteRainbowCurvesSecond ChanceReservedBad NewsLatentNo Second ChancesParabola Book:Gravity's Rainbow Source: Gravity's Rainbow
“Bliss - a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious - lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you’ve never known will wash over you and just about kill you. Ride these out, and it’s like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Instant bliss in every atom.” JoyLyingSidesBlackWaterWhitePayAttentionKnownAliveColorLike YouReturnGratitudeTaxesConsciousGolfWaveDesertBoredBlissInstantBoredomCrushOver YouAtomsBlack And WhiteTediousTax ReturnsJoy And Gratitude Author:David Foster Wallace