White Quotes · Page 39

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

— Dick Gregory

Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

— Delano Johnson

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

— William A. Drake

“Snow White was I only in skin, and not in any of the other important descriptors.”

— Serra Elinsen

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

— Lenny Kravitz

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

— Victor Hugo

I have no idea what White House statement was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.

— Richard Darman

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

— John F. Kennedy

I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers,…

— Wanda Sykes

The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle…

— Ayelet Waldman

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

— Bell Hooks

I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their…

— Henry Rollins

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had…

— Chevy Chase

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every…

— Ulysses S. Grant

It's important to maintain an attractive smile as you age. A lighter, less beige, more white tooth color is key, but no…

— Evelyn Lauder

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black…

— Jean Pigozzi

And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays.…

— Tupac Shakur

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour…

— Edward Weston

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist…

— Arundhati Roy

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the…

— Chief Seattle

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of…

— Jimmy Fallon

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the…

— Nicole Krauss

Photography has always been associated with death. Reality is colorful, yet early photography always took the color out of reality and made…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I think my style is classic - I like wearing jeans and a white button-up shirt.

— Kim Kardashian

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

— Christina Aguilera

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

— Jackie Robinson

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

— Ethel Waters

My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.

— Didier Deschamps

There is nothing wrong with the name White Settlement, and the majority here is proud of the name.

— Alan Price

The one thing I didn't want to do was a show about the White House. I was too close to it.

— Jon Lovett

Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

— Dov Davidoff

“You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich.”

— Christian Lander

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

— Albert Camus

We're going to put sanity back into the White House.

— Donald Trump

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

— Benny Goodman

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

— Dolly Parton

Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.

— Dale Steyn

In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.

— Jane Mayer

Not every cop is bad, not every white person is bad or racist.

— Jamal Murray