Kathleen Hanna Quotes

My characters make incomprehensible decisions until you stand in their shoes. Then it makes more sense. Life is very rarely black and white, and most people are trying to do their best. I try not to judge.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

Good or bad is what we tend to want to affix to people, but we're all complicated.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

Most of the decisions you make are not black and white, but at the end of the day, you have to make the decision.

People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.

Nobody is all good or bad.

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.

We all judge people.

It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.

It's really rare in life that a situation is as black and white as we tend to paint it.

The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

Stereotypes are convenient. And yet within them, everyone will say there's something that - you know, they don't come for no reason. It's just that it takes time to explore complexity.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

Maybe you don't know who a person is just based on the way they dress. I know that's a really simple thing you're supposed to be taught really young, but sometimes you can forget.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

I don't love to generalize, because I think every person has bad and good in them.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.