White Quotes · Page 53

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

— Graham Greene

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.

— Mary Oliver

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

— Spike Lee

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

— Jemele Hill

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

— Fran Lebowitz

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

— Fredro Starr

“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not…

— Chief Seattle

Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

— Anonymous

White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

— Mark Shields

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

— Jennifer Morrison

Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white…

— Spike Lee

I've got two Rolexes that I'm very proud of - a gold Presidential that was a gift and a white gold one…

— J. Cole

When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.

— Noel Pearson

“Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the country have agreed to call…

— L. Sprague de Camp

The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a…

— Janet Fitch

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress…

— Mitch McConnell

I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it…

— Ugo Mochi

The film [the white Ribbon] does try to use German Fascism as an example, but not specifically Fascism... the results of German…

— Michael Haneke

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused…

— Jack Kornfield

You had a socialist get 47 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary: Bernie Sanders. You have an outright white nationalist…

— Van Jones

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor…

— Ida B. Wells

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.

— Alfred Tarski

Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.

— Bill Dedman

I grew up lower-middle class outside of Austin, I'm a white guy, and I write movies.

— Riley Stearns

I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

— George Stephanopoulos

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

— Jimmie Johnson

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

— Randy Newman

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

— Warren G. Harding

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

— Alfred Russel Wallace

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

— Katherine Anne Porter

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

— Clare Boothe Luce

Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

— Rosa Parks

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

— Jim Lehrer