“White, adj. and n. Black.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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As quoted by Joe Romersa (c. 1992)
Shadowbox Studio
“[I]n the words of Chairman Mao, 'It's darkest before it's totally black.”
In response to a reporter's question, "Which is more likely: making progress in Iraq or you winning the nomination?" (July 2007)
2000s, 2007
Source: Liasson, Mara. McCain Nearly Broke But Stays Course http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12000037. National Public Radio. July 7, 2007.
“And finds, with keen, discriminating sight,
Black ’s not so black,—nor white so very white.”
New Morality.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
OK who's going to identify that?
The Guardian, Saturday 26 April 2008
“The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.”
London Observer (January 2, 1983)
“I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.”
The Sarah Silverman Program
“Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.”
“Color,” p. 64
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “A Smiling Sky”