White Quotes · Page 63

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

— Robert Burns

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

— Jade Bird

Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

— J. D. Vance

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

— Van Morrison

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.

— Leonard Cohen

The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

— Malcolm X

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

— Jennifer Palmieri

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not…

— John F. Kerry

White people made up the n-word, they knew about racial jokes before anybody, and in their old movies and old cartoons they…

— Paul Mooney

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind,…

— Sophocles

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand…

— Sterling K. Brown

The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself…

— John French Sloan

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed…

— Philip K. Dick

Now the Earth's face is lathered white with shaving soap It's a long time till the razor once more makes its face…

— Gunvor Hofmo

White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.

— Robin DiAngelo

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the…

— Al Sharpton

When I was discussing my role with other senior campaign folks, they would say, "I know you have four kids, but..." I…

— Kellyanne Conway

Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could…

— John Ehrlichman

In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told…

— Paul Beatty

A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man.…

— Saint Augustine

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point…

— Trevor Rabin

The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a…

— David Letterman

Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things--yellow tablecloths or white? hors d'oeuvres…

— Caitlin Flanagan

We say Black lives matter, but a lot of white folks don't know Black folk.

— Jonathan Majors

Au revoir, jewelled alligators and white hotels, hallucinatory forests, farewell.

— Anonymous

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

— Anna Deavere Smith

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

— Nancy Reagan

I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

— Jason Wu

One thing I'm not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.

— Charlamagne tha God

In pop culture news, Lady Gaga got married. And yes, she was wearing white meat.

— David Letterman

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

— Andrew Johnson

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

— Barry Sears

Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

— Penn Jillette

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

— Tina Turner

Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

— Jim Webb

I love a freshly tailored white shirt, dungarees and cute loafers, like Prince George.

— Vick Hope

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

— Rudy Giuliani

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

— Sitting Bull

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood,

— Wendy Raquel Robinson