Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gil Gerard

I liked working with Tom Christopher as he was great as Hawk, and Wilfred Hyde White but I wished it were in a different context as the changes really tuned off the audience.

Halle Berry

Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white women. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

Gregory Hines

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Howard Zinn

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Hosea Ballou

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

Gene Simmons

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

Frederick Douglass

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

Fergie

I love black truffles. I love white truffles.

Fefe Dobson

I would love to work with Jack White or Kanye West.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

Eve Ensler

We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself."

Jim Hightower

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Jeff Landry

Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

Jeff Landry

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Jill Abramson

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

Jesse Jackson

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Jesse Jackson

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

Jesse Jackson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Jesse Jackson

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

Michael Moore

White people scare the crap out of me.

Michael Moore

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

Michael Moore

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

Nicholson Baker

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

Nora Roberts

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

Nat King Cole

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Monica Lewinsky

I'm going to the White House to get my presidential kneepads.

Mick Jagger

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

Michelle Malkin

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

Michelle Obama

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

Michael Pollan

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.