Quotes About Contrast

In chaos there is order, and in order there lies chaos.

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again. How It Feels to Be Colored Me

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. It was like a wall of stone and steel. The funeral was going on outside. All things concerning death and burial were said and done. Finish. End. Never-more. Darkness. Deep hole. Dissolution. Eternity. Weeping and wailing outside. Inside the expensive black folds were resurrection and life.

The sunlight where I had lost them was still of Midas gold, but that which touched me where I stood had somehow turned to gilt.

I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. For instance at Barnard. Beside the waters of the Hudson I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

I'll probably always have some black in my accessories, but it's also important to have a pop of color.

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

From my experience, I can affirm that I don't really know how the women see the world like, but it seems to be quite different from how men do.

I'm not the same person on the court. I'm different when I'm off the court. Off the court, I don't need to be aggressive or anything.

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.

The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.

I always get yelled at when things don't match, but apparently that's kind of part of fashion, having things not match.

In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.

I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.