Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Naya Rivera

I feel like showering more than once a day or every day is such a white people thing.

Muhammad Ali

How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.

Muhammad Ali

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

Muhammad Ali

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Martin Jacques

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Mitt Romney

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

Margaret Atwood

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

Nik Wallenda

I do everything I do to pay tribute to my great-grandfather.