India Arie Quotes

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

You either are or you're not.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

I am black or white, I'll never be grey in my life.

You are either with us or against us…

Anything that has only two choices is wrong.

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

False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.

You like me, or you hate me. There's really no in between.

For some people, it's impossible to escape binaries.

You are either with me or you're not.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

In Poland a man must be one thing: white or black, here or there, with us or against us -- clearly, openly, without hesitations. . . . We lack the liberal, democratic tradition rich in all its gradations. We have instead the tradition of struggle: the extreme situation, the final gesture.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.