Kami Garcia Quotes

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

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.

I think the truth is black-and-white.

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

Black implies white self implies other

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

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.

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

There was no black or white. Someone who had been good her entire life could, in fact, do something evil. People were just as capable of committing murder, under the right circumstances, as any monster.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.

People is themselves when they are children, and not again till they know they'm dying.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.