America Quote by Muhammad Ali

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes,…

— Paule Marshall

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be…

— Nell Irvin Painter

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

— Kate Mosse

Good can exist in bad, and bad can exist in good. It's not black and white.

— Sarah Jeffery

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they…

— Maya Angelou

Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share…

— Tim Wise

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

— Josephine Baker

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this…

— Malcolm X

“... it's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out for other…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.

— Steve Nash

There's always the question of what is good and evil and the gray area in between where that most people live. In everyday life,…

— Laura San Giacomo