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You knew everybody on the streets, both black and white.


Estelle Perrault

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FAY GODWIN Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
GRAHAM GREENE There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.
LISA LING Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.
WILL ARNETT I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
HENRY ROLLINS It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.
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AL GREEN This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
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HEIDI KLUM There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
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LEONARD NIMOY I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
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Black on white.
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