White Quotes · Page 66

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

— Nina Simone

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

— Joel Sternfeld

Whether you're African-American or white, you're concerned about rural hospitals closing.

— Mike Espy

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

— Douglas Adams

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

— Hasan Minhaj

I was the generation who hated the white man, despised him, wanted to shoot him.

— John Kani

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

— Nikki Giovanni

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

— Chris Bauer

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black…

— Kathleen Blanco

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

— Arthur Symons

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

— Chris Matthews

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star…

— Edith Head

We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool…

— Ian Mcewan

I'm biracial; I didn't know that until I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought I was full white, which, honestly,…

— Kane Brown

To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine;…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to…

— Gish Jen

I like to go to the frat house and drink with my white friends, because anytime you go drinking at the frat…

— Aries Spears

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be…

— Chief Joseph

We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person]…

— Raymond Chandler

The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have…

— Jon Stewart

Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that…

— Alberto Manguel

It's an often-asked question, 'Why did all these spotty white English boys suddenly start playing blues in the '60s?' It was recognized…

— Steve Winwood

'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the…

— Ben Shapiro

Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

— Dorothy Parker

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

— Bobby Fischer

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

— George Orwell

To be able to say, 'I'm going to be Snow White' - it's crazy. It's an honor.

— Lily Collins

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Wabam wabisca ip pit tah.” (“Look! The white fangs!”)”

— Anonymous

Whatever Dana White and Joe Silva have planned for me, I'm ready.

— Sage Northcutt

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

— Carrie Fisher

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

— Theophile Gautier

I'm neither half white nor half Asian. I'm full both.

— Henry Golding

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

— Sam Phillips

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

— Elliott Yamin

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

— Kathryn Stockett

People don't realize there's a whole separate entrance to the White House for journalists.

— Sebastian Gorka

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

— Rick Riordan

From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

— Shing02