White Quotes · Page 67

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

— Edgar Degas

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

— Larry Holmes

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

— Peter Abrahams

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

— Michael Pollan

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

— Norman Lear

I'm a lifelong fan. There's not a white kid in the world who didn't listen to Eminem rapping.

— Jelly Roll

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

— Chief Joseph

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

— Seth MacFarlane

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then…

— Susan B. Anthony

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by…

— Alice Mattison

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

— Teju Cole

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding…

— Larry Bird

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be…

— Emo Philips

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

— Robin DiAngelo

I've played lots of villains in my time and I think the reason they've been so successful is that they're not two-dimensional.…

— Mark Strong

If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour,…

— Gary Yourofsky

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at…

— Susanna Kaysen

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so…

— Rusty Schweickart

For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she…

— Alice-Leone Moats

So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot…

— Philip K. Dick

I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should…

— J. C. Watts

She was a vision in a white gown her dark hair forming a hazy halo around her rosy heart-shaped face. Her long…

— Anna Godbersen

That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

— Grover Cleveland

It doesn't matter if you're black or white, I'll love you, but if you are orange, then well…

— LyLe

I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.

— Gregory Corso

Senator Joe Biden is pretty clean and articulate for a white guy.

— Barack Obama

I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House.

— Rick Santelli

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

— Melissa de la Cruz

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.

— Malcolm X

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.

— Sidney Blumenthal

“To be white is to be human; to be white is universal. I only know this because I am not.”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

— Paul Mooney

Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.

— Conan O'Brien

On many occasions I have had to approach salary and bonus in a different way to white men.

— Andi Oliver

Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

— Deng Xiaoping

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

— Robin DiAngelo

Trumpists want a return to a white, Christian America.

— Joy Reid