“Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.”

“Adulthood isn't black and white - it's a thousand shades of grey. Or taupe. It's not who you are, it's where you are.”

“People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence”

“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”

“The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.”

“Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.”

“The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.”

“Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.”

“There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.”

“There are no white skins, and there are no black skins. Humans skins are of different shades of orange.”