--- title: "8 Work White Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Work White quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Work White sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/karen-hughes-24363_day_i-never-dreamed-i-would-one-day-work-at_39018.jpg" --- > [I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-hughes/i-never-dreamed-i-would-one-day-work-at-it-white-house/) [Karen Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-hughes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/karen-hughes-24363_day_i-never-dreamed-i-would-one-day-work-at_39018.jpg) > [“Colored or not, we all work for the white man's cotton...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-lee-burke-red-cherry-blues/colored-or-not-we-all-work-for-the-white-man-s-cotton/) [James Lee Burke Red Cherry Blues](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-lee-burke-red-cherry-blues/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/715/james-lee-burke-red-cherry-blu_cajun_colored-or-not-we-all-work-for-the-white_324912.jpg) > [If fences don't work, why is there one around the White House?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-krauthammer/if-fences-don-t-work-why-is-there-one-around-the-white-house/) [Charles Krauthammer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-krauthammer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/charles-krauthammer-1232_fence_if-fences-don-t-work-why-is-there-one-ar_862013.png) > [I never set out to work in the White House.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-rhodes/i-never-set-out-to-work-in-the-white-house/) [Ben Rhodes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-rhodes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e0/ben-rhodes-7180_house_i-never-set-out-to-work-in-the-white-hou_1294262.jpg) > [“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-petry/the-women-work-because-the-white-folks-give-them-jobs-washing-dishes/) [Ann Petry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-petry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/571/ann-petry-26049_african-americans_the-women-work-because-the-white-folks-g_1664073.jpg) > [It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bocafloja/it-isn-t-like-we-don-t-work-with-you-because-you-are-white-or-not/) [Bocafloja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bocafloja/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/190/bocafloja-19979_accounting_it-isn-t-like-we-don-t-work-with-you-bec_1734598.jpg) > [Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-laliberte/our-biggest-goal-is-to-continue-to-force-ourselves-to-always-start/) [Guy Laliberte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-laliberte/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cd/guy-laliberte-14466_advantage_our-biggest-goal-is-to-continue-to-force_1977146.jpg) > [One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-diangelo/one-of-the-things-i-try-to-work-with-white-people-on-is-letting-go-of/) [Robin DiAngelo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-diangelo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/robin-diangelo-10183_humble_one-of-the-things-i-try-to-work-with-whi_2167927.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/work-white/#itemlist", "name": "Work White Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen Hughes" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-hughes/i-never-dreamed-i-would-one-day-work-at-it-white-house/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/karen-hughes-24363_day_i-never-dreamed-i-would-one-day-work-at_39018.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/374/karen-hughes-24363_day_i-never-dreamed-i-would-one-day-work-at_39018.jpg", "url": 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