“Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.”

“And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.”

George Canning (1770–1827) British statesman and politician

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.”

Eden ahbez (1908–1995) American songwriter and recording artist

“If you had 5 photos of anuses, I could not point mine out”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”

Lisa Ling (1973) American journalist, television presenter, and author

“Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews… Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.”

Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001) American activist

“Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“Black Power seeks not understanding but conflict; addresses blacks and not whites; seeks to develop black support, but not white good will.”

James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian

“At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

“Just as we preach a "black peril" so they will begin to speak of a "white peril" and of the hostility the white men have toward them.”

Jan Smuts (1870–1950) military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa