Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm X

He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black.

Malcolm X

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

Malcolm X

America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

Malcolm X

I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.

Malcolm X

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.

Malcolm X

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

Harvey Levin

I didn't feel like it was essential to have a white host or a black host, I wanted a good host.

Matt Tong

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

Max Cleland

The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.

Matthew Perry

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

Matsuo Basho

Just washed, How chill The white leeks!

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Briggs

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Pat Paulsen

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

Pablo Neruda

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Paula Deen

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

Mary E. Pearson

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Kenneth Grahame

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

Kathy Reichs

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Jonathan Raban

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

Jonathan Raban

It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.

Narendra Modi

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

Helen Fielding

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

Jo Coudert

Almost anything can be stretched to serve more people by being added to a white sauce or canned gravy or undiluted or very slightly diluted canned soup and served over noodles or rice. With chops or chocolate eclairs, however, the only solution is to claim you don't like them.

Jimmy Carter

My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It's not possible for a President to actually know them.

Jimmy Carter

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

John Cage

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

Ellen Goodman

Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

Emily Dickinson

Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?

Tony Benn

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Simone Elkeles

Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work.

Rick Riordan

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.