Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen King

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

Tony Kushner

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Tony Campolo

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

Spike Lee

Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Rachel Zoe

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

Ted Hughes

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

Tecumseh

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

Randall Robinson

I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

Randall Kennedy

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

James McBride

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

Taylor Swift

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

Stacey King

You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him!

Stan Brakhage

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,

Stephenie Meyer

It felt almost rude to ignore toe pretty white bed, but we just weren’t going to make it that far.

Sophie Kinsella

There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.

Thomas Pynchon

MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents.

Tim Wise

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

Russell Baker

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

Ruben Hinojosa

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

Ron Atkinson

His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

Truman Capote

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

Rick Riordan

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

Maggie Stiefvater

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

Karl Lagerfeld

Black, like white, is the best color!

Julius Charles Hare

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Joycelyn Elders

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

Kathryn Stockett

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

Kathryn Stockett

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

Kathryn Stockett

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Kathryn Stockett

I wait on white ladies who walk right out the bedroom wearing nothing but they personality...

Kanye West

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.

June Jordan

Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.