Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Nadine Gordimer

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

Nadine Gordimer

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

Mitt Romney

It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done.

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.

Nelson Mandela

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

Nelson Mandela

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized.

Nelson Mandela

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination...

Nelson A. Miles

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

Noam Chomsky

Bolivia is a striking example. The mostly white, Europeanized elite, which is a minority, happens to be sitting on most of the hydrocarbon reserves. For the first time Bolivia is becoming democratic. So it's therefore bitterly hated by the West, which despises democracy, because it's much too dangerous.

Mike Pence

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it.

Glenn Beck

You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today.

Jim Butcher

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Jim Butcher

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Jim Butcher

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Jim Butcher

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

Jim Butcher

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Jim Butcher

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

Natalia Vodianova

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

Nancy Pearcey

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Julian Bond

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

Keith Richards

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Katori Hall

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Kazimir Malevich

The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling.

Kazimir Malevich

Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background!

Oprah Winfrey

The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.

Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

Margaret Atwood

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

Margaret Atwood

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Kid Rock

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

Kevin McCloud

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

Ken Page

For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no difference when we look at it. Now, white folks try to explain it away like, 'Oh, it's OK.' But when you're black, it is not OK. It represents oppression and murder.