Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sexton

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

D. L. Hughley

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

Constance Baker Motley

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

Constance Baker Motley

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Danny Kaye

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Andy Kindler

Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

Ambrose Bierce

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Alice Walker

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Ann Wilson

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

Angelina Grimke

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

Chuck Todd

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House, But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Angela Carter

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

Angela Carter

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Andrew Johnson

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Andy Stern

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Ann Richards

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Angela Bassett

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

Anne Enright

And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

Ann Aguirre

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Robert Frost

He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

Robert Boswell

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

Rita Mae Brown

If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

Richard Matheson

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Richard E. Byrd

I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.

Thomas Hood

The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.

Thomas Sowell

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.

Richard Armitage

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.

Robert Herrick

Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.