White Quotes · Page 44

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.

— Elliott Erwitt

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.

— Toni Morrison

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

— John Brown

Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?

— Barbara Gittings

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

— David Letterman

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

— Marjane Satrapi

When I was playing Jimmy White in those finals, I could tell when he was under pressure.

— Stephen Hendry

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.

— Ezra Koenig

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask…

— Athol Fugard

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than…

— Henry Rollins

When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute…

— Billy Corgan

If you're White then yes, you have White privilege. It's there for the taking if you choose to use it, you know,…

— Big Daddy Kane

Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic,…

— John Lewis

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so…

— Anonymous

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for…

— Toi Derricotte

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well… But now…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and…

— Mike Tyson

That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an…

— Terry Eastland

I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have…

— Ella Baker

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines,…

— Isoroku Yamamoto

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

If you read the story of slavery and see the part that the Uncle Tom played in the plantation, and then you…

— Malcolm X

There are a lot of barbecue sauces. But I've been using Head Country barbecue sauce for 20 to 25 years, which is…

— Johnny Trigg

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

— Danny Boyle

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

— Red Cloud

Ethnic minority women generally have poorer outcomes from their pregnancy compared to white women.

— Konnie Huq

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

— Robert Kennedy

Iraq deals with the United States regardless of who is in the White House.

— Haider al-Abadi

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

— David Duke

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

— Geraldo Rivera

I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther.

— Sterling K. Brown

Drinking all day Big chiefing at night I keep my eyes red and tight So that my teeth can look white

— Devin the Dude

People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will.

— Robin DiAngelo

“Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.”

— Gérard de Nerval

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

— Bob Edwards

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

— Robert Herrick

The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

— Emily Giffin

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

— Kevin McCloud