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White Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any…
- Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle…
- QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the…
- MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated…
- ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
- Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
- INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The…
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- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
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