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The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.


William Blake

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DAVID AMRAM It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.
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LARRY LESTER That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...
AL SHARPTON In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
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CATHY ELKIES I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quaranti...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
KARLA SOUZA And the crow once called the raven black.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.
JOHN SHIRLEY The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
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ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...
KHALED HOSSEINI 'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally frie...
REBECCA TRAISTER We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.
CINDY AILLAUD I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.
CINDY LOU AILLAUD Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wishe...
MARIA MONK I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the w...
MARK TWAIN When Howard Beach occurred -- and it was white on black -- everyone was upset. This is similar. Some...
NORMAN SIEGEL The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. ...
THEODORE MELFI I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.
STEVEN MILLHAUSER A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong...
A WHITNEY BROWN A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong....
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JENNIFER MORRISON I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a blac...
RANDALL KENNEDY If everything isn't black and white, I say, "Why the hell not?"
JOHN WAYNE A whitewashed crow soon shows black again
CHINESE PROVERBS Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
KAMI GARCIA I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as wel...
JIM BROWN That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changin...
SARAH DESSEN My Dad was a white man in a black skin.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART Every white will have its black, And every sweet its sour.
THOMAS PERCY College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
ILYASAH SHABAZZ Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
VINCE LOMBARDI Big run by Blake Powers. That was huge.
TERRY HOEPPNER When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or...
C. JOYBELL C. If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
JOHN WAYNE One of the things I was excited about, ... is that I get one of those black-and-white things.
LAUREN HOLLY In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything.
YUSUF ISLAM On the second floor were the white students, and the third floor was for black students,
JACK STEWART A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so...
JEAN GENET This was not a white or black issue; it was an issue of right or wrong.
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SARAH DESSEN For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White ...
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DEYTH BANGER She loved black and white stills. She was very creative and talented.
AMY URIELL It was still a shock to see it in black and white.
KATHY STRONG THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
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DAVID STERN The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ...
ALBERT MURRAY You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS If children conform to the standards set by their peers, in the seventies and eighties the peer pres...
TANNER COLBY I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One les...
ANDERSON COOPER I swear there was an owl on the window sill when I was born.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself t...
TA-NEHISI COATES She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up ...
CHRISTINE E. SCHULZE I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked again...
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BURGESS OWENS I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.
BRENDA HOLLOWAY Media today is even more black and white, then early photography ever was
LOESJE Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.
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PAUL WELLER I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade.
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ISABEL WILKERSON People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.
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JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
LISA LING I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
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WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE