#Black

"I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes."

"Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?"

"I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side."

"Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.'"

"My past is black and my future is blank. My only canvas is the present. The best color to paint with is love."

"To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him."

"Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love."

"And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow."

"I grew up when one of America's greatest black playwrights, August Wilson, was writing about life in Pittsburgh, but I never saw myself in any of his straight-male plays. And then I see 'Angels,' which was so honest and painful, and it had this black drag queen in it, Belize, with a big heart. I finally had a character to relate to."

"I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid."

"The darkness has ink eyes, and if you stare long enough, you’re going to see it blink black. That’s the moment to start writing."

"To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be."

"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."

"Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope."

"Your life has to consist of more than 'Black people should unite.' You hope they do, but not twenty-four hours a day."

"Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . ."

"Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black."

"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."

"You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'"

"People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can make them. But if you say my characters are too black and white, you've missed the point. Villains are meant to be black-hearted in popular novels. If you say I have a grey-hearted villain, then I've failed."