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

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

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

“Some things were perfectly clear, seen with the vision of youth.
No doubts and nothing to fear, I claimed the corner on truth.
These days it's harder to say I know what I'm fighting for.
My faith is falling away.
I'm not that sure anymore.
Shades of grey wherever I go
The more I find out the less that I know.
Black and white is how it should be
But shades of grey are the colors I see.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.*
Grey zones do not interest me at all.”

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