“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.” WayYearsLongStoriesWantedMotherDesireBlackWhiteChangedPagesHundredDecidedEightScreensPoundsShort StoryBlack And WhiteNever ChangeGoatsParagraphLaptops Author:Tea Obreht
“I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.” KnowsWayFirstsDreamBlackKnow HowFirst TimeCleanGrandmotherNightmarePotRecipesDreams Come TrueCubaCeilingsBeansCubanDrippingGreat Grandmother Author:Danny Pino
“I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?” ThinkingWayBelieveChildrenHas BeensProblemI BelieveBlackGroupsPoliticianScoreGaps Author:Barry Williams
“We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.” PeopleWayDifferentSchoolStuffParentBlackWhiteHigh SchoolDifferent WaysGradesBizarreMexicanGrades In SchoolAll Black Author:Jack White
“In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.” WayTwoBlackFivePlayerEventsMouthsBallsGolfGolf Ball Author:Gary McCord
“It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.” WayFirstsMatterFacesBlackSceneActressesSingersAcceptable Author:Carly Simon
“All painting worth its name, unless one is talking about black and white, must include the idea of color as one of its necessary supports, in the same way that it includes chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective.” WayIdeasNamesBlackWhiteTalkingSupportColorPaintingPerspectiveProportionBlack And WhiteWorth ItChiaroscuro Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface.” WayEarthTurnsBlackSurfacePoetry Is Author:Osip Mandelstam
“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” PeopleWayGovernmentBlackFreedomEconomyEconomicsOpeningWorking ItFree MarketEnablingOpening UpMarket EconomyFree Market Capitalism Author:Milton Friedman