Quotes about Nuance

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

All extremes are pernicious in various ways.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

The two alternatives are always exclusionary, usually in an angry way: things are either totally right or totally wrong, with me or against me, male or female, Democrat or Republican, Christian or pagan, on and on and on. The binary mind provides quick security and false comfort, but never wisdom. It thinks it is smart because it counters your idea with an opposing idea. There is usually not much room for a "reconciling third." I see this in myself almost every day.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

In my day, the films you got were about mature people, people with some kind of weight.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.