Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the… — Stuart Symington Copy Share Image
“Without sight to get in the way of things, the whole world was suddenly alive with sound: the lapping of water as… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was bumped off unjustly, Adam Clayton Powell was bumped off unjustly, they took my title unjustly, they killed Megers… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it… — John Locke Copy Share Image
[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Secret Service agents detained an Iowa man with a gun who happened to be walking in a Des Moines park where President… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was made fun of in the Midwest - I was the only Asian in my graduating class of 200. Fortunately, I… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when… — George Miller Sternberg Copy Share Image
The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My passion today is not only justice for the Black man and woman of America, but for all those who cry out… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Who would want to get back together with Taylor Swift after having dated her? I'm sure dating her is like talking to… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
[There's] a joke that I've done forever: 'Nowadays they say that the largest majority of people will be Latino and you'll tell… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I have had more magazine covers in the last 25 years than I have had in my whole elongated career. [...] Today… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
What Hillary Clinton doesn't say is that tens of thousands of people that are unbelievably happy and that love me. I'll give… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer… — Steve Kangas Copy Share Image
A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival… — Frank C. Garland Copy Share Image