White Quotes · Page 62

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

— Irwin Shaw

It was very easy to say to a white middle-class audience, 'What about Thatcher?' and get a reaction.

— Lee Evans

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion.

— Steve Forbes

I'm gonna rap the same whether I'm white, black, or Hispanic, I'm still gonna be me.

— Paul Wall

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

— Karl Rove

Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.

— BD Wong

We have not been energetic enough - white people haven't - in pursuing racial equity.

— George Saunders

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

— Anne Sexton

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could -…

— Jerry Saltz

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

— Al Gore

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound…

— Mike Myers

Blood trickles from my throat, on to Kate's white nightgown. She screams at the sight. 'Jarrod, you're bleeding!' 'I'm all right, don't…

— Marianne Curley

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an…

— Robert Kennedy

If I waited to write only for a Persian lesbian, I'd still be waiting. But I can write for straight white men…

— Nahnatchka Khan

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House.

— Bill Drayton

The White House is dismissing these fiery town halls as the result of professional protesters. Well, that's exactly how President [Barack] Obama…

— Chuck Todd

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women…

— Viola Davis

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on…

— Alan Watts

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be…

— Diablo Cody

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world;…

— Darius McCrary

If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who…

— Malcolm X

I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful…

— Russell D. Moore

Mr. Searle became a satirist, he once said, because ‘in the late '30s, things in general and politics in particular were no…

— Ronald Searle

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

— Anthony Hopkins

Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

— Moby

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

— Robert Greene

No black or white America-just United States of America.

— Barack Obama

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

— Dick Gregory

There are a plethora of ways of being black, just like there's many ways to being white.

— Justin Simien

San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.

— Tom Lehrer

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

— Evelyn Nesbit

My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.

— Marty Stuart

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

— Celina Jade

Ray Charles, who said to Stevie Wonder, Maybe we're white. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

— Anonymous

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

— Samuel Fuller

Trump, of course, has historically struggled among well educated White voters, even within own party.

— Harry Enten

The world isn't black and white, Annie, it's shades of grey.

— Tami Hoag

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

— Mikhail Tal