Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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 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...

Kanye West

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

June Jordan

Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.

Paul Lynde

My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.

George MacDonald

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

John Crowe Ransom

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

Joel Osteen

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Joe Arpaio

It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

John F. Kennedy

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

John F. Kennedy

The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.

Jonathan Ive

I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple’s tell-tale white earbuds. But I’m constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?