“I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it w...” — Sam Phillips Quote

I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was just an old farm. I grew up with a lot of black people working in the fields, and it was during the Depression between 1930 and the war, so we were all poor - black and white.

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

We had a black and white telly in the corner of the room that had three channels. There was nothing to keep you around the house. It was a different time.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.