...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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American ideal ... of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and I...ndians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden--as an unpatriotic act--that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The guided missiles, The black-and-white angels follow each quirk and jink of... The evasive sheep, play grandmother's-steps behind them, Freeze to the ground, or leap to head off a stragglerLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow--red, yellow, brown, black and white--and we're all precious in God's... sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Three-year-olds see the world in black-and-white terms.... They have been told that they should be good. They want to believe that... they are good.... Therefore, they weren't the ones who poured jam all over the sleeping cocker spaniel. Denying their culpability is neither malicious nor sneaky; it just reflects the unshaded terms in which preschoolers view the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There arose, glimmering whitely over the harsh scrub and the stunted trees, a noble city, set foursquare and colonnaded along its ...falling flower-bordered terraces. There were splashing fountains, and the sound of flutes; and its citizens moved, grave and beautiful, black and white and brown together; and these groups of elders paused, and smiled with pleasure at the sight of the children--the blue-eyed, fair-skinned children of the North playing hand in hand with the bronze-skinned, dark-eyed children of the South. Yes, they smiled and approved these many-fathered children, running and playing among the flowers and the terraces, through the white pillars and tall trees of this fabulous and ancient city.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life..., which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a child were kept in a place where he never saw any other but black and white till he were a man, he would have no more ideas o...f scarlet or green, than he that from his childhood never tasted an oyster, or a pineapple, has of those particular relishes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »