Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Rock

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

Chris Rock

So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

Jennifer Chiaverini

What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

Jeff Greenfield

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jean Shepherd

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Jean Rhys

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

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!

James Cromwell

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

James Broughton

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Jamaica Kincaid

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Jack White

Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

Jack White

I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.

Jack White

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Glenn Reynolds

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

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.

Howard Staunton

After white's reply to 1.e4 e5 with 2.f4 the game is in its last throes

Howard Dean

Dealing with race is about educating white folks.

Howard Dean

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Honore de Balzac

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

Ishmael Reed

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

Idris Elba

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Elton John

He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.

Ian MacKaye

It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.