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.

David Horn

Some people like to go fishing, ... We like to work cattle.

Linda Pierce

Some people know how to teach, and some know how to do.

Elizabeth Jones

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Wynne Wakley

Some people just can't take the pressure or the stress. Those are the people who we try to weed out.

Martin Freeman

Some people have that roar in their head, but I'm not sure I ever did. That live-fast-die-young thing. No one wants it really.

Bill Bullard

Some people have spent a lot of time on this proposal already,

Richard Prince

Some people are better at handling the limelight than others.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Ian Jackson

Some people would've shut themselves away, and she was never like that, ... She was very willing to go out and talk about it.

Chris Davis

We help a lot of people out, ... It feels good inside to know that you're making a difference.

Willie Smith

It feels good; I'm just real proud of myself. I felt like I had a great senior year to put me into this position.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Joan Didion

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

Julius Thomas

It's just a tremendous feeling. We know what it feels like to lose. This year, we made it our goal not just to come to ARCO, but to win at ARCO.

Charles Coody

Y'all may know, this is my last (Masters). It feels good to walk off having played a respectable round.

Rick Rubin

I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That's one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that's made me like it less. It feels much more like it's a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.

Carlos Arroyo

We got the monkey off our back. It feels great.

Gerard Way

To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.