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.

Ted Hughes

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

Shirley Chisholm

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Sidney Blumenthal

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

Langston Hughes

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Linda Tripp

I just know that what happened in the Clinton White House should never have happened to anyone.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Pete Rose

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Joss Stone

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Joseph Campbell

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Karl Popper

No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.

Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

Justin Bieber

you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

Juan Gris

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Juan Goytisolo

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spain's condition.

Karl Lagerfeld

Black, like white, is the best color!

Julius Charles Hare

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Joycelyn Elders

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

Kathryn Stockett

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

Kathryn Stockett

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

Kathryn Stockett

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Kathryn Stockett

I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality...