Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

William Falconer

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

Sandra Cisneros

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Taye Diggs

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Michael Greenberg

I think it's a black eye for the Bush administration. This opens a Pandora's box.

Linda Massey

It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.

Jawn Murray

He changed the way Hollywood looked at black cinematography. He really showed Hollywood that the black story can be told differently and, if they don't invest in us, we'll invest in ourselves. So many other blacks are going to be following that lead.

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Lil' Kim

has learned through rap images to identify black male culture with a culture of violence.

Clara Taylor

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

Don Baker

It gets up the black marks, sweat, dirt, lint.

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Tom Angell

It's a victory that some students will be able to get back their aid. But there are still some fundamental problems.

Jim Craig

As I understand it, students have been nauseous, vomiting, and had other flu-like symptoms.

Paul McCurtain

The students had the idea. They wanted to do something.

Gene Miller

The students are coming, and we're going to have to do something to accommodate the growth.