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Quotes About Contrast

In chaos there is order, and in order there lies chaos.
~ Ziauddin Sardar
elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid
~ Zoë Heller
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
~ Zora Neale Hurston
It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
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.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
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.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
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.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
~ Robin McLeavy
I'll probably always have some black in my accessories, but it's also important to have a pop of color.
~ Coco Rocha
I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.
~ David Rakoff
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.
~ Vikrant Massey
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.
~ Luol Deng
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.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.
~ John Gourley
One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
~ Josh Silver
People like my voice, which is funny because all my life my family has joked about my nasal voice.
~ Sanam Saeed
There's light and dark in all things, you know?
~ Susan Kelechi Watson
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
~ Matt Groening
My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.
~ Grimes
The performance of black American identity feels very different from actually living in a black body. There's a dissonance between inside and outside.
~ Kehinde Wiley
I always get yelled at when things don't match, but apparently that's kind of part of fashion, having things not match.
~ David Dobrik
In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is.
~ Jess Phillips
I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.
~ Colleen Atwood
As Devin, the person, I'm very different from my artistic self.
~ Devin Townsend