White Quotes
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Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.
J. J. Abrams
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White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.
Chris Crass
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To the South African parliament: I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.
Helen Suzman
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As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.
T. D. Jakes
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I've had sex, so I'm not wearing white.
Selma Blair
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It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
L. Ron Hubbard
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I am astounded at my age with a 20-year-old daughter to discover that kids of her generation don't want to watch black and white movies. I understand that they gave up on silent films, but black and white? So, now movies have to be taught in academia because people don't know how to watch them, they don't know how to appreciate them.
Gary Giddins
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I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.
George Zimmerman
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I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.
Lewis Carroll
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Most of what we see are white people.
Arthur Jafa
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
William Golding
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You can tell this by the program the federal government had to train 2,400 tractor drivers. They would have trained Negro and white together, but this man, Congressman Jamie Whitten, voted against it and everything that was decent. So, we've got to have somebody in Washington who is concerned about the people of Mississippi.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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The standard is the standard and whomever walks in the door at the time I need a person in that position who can do that job with excellence and who understands my vision, if they can fulfill it, they got the job whether they're young, old, black, white, male or female.
T. D. Jakes
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I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.
Amber Hollibaugh
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When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.
Nannie Helen Burroughs
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There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
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The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.
Eve Babitz
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Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.
Roberto Duran
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
M. Scott Peck
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I'm really white trash.
George Clooney
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One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
Mo Udall
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I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.
Chad Hugo N.E.R.D.
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I felt red, white and blue all over.
Edward Higgins White