White Quotes - page 3

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. (Bell hooks)
I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more. View quote
Jack White
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. View quote
Marcus Garvey
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. View quote
James Baldwin
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. View quote
James Baldwin
I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan. View quote
Huey Long
Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, ... We're going to California and Texas and New York. We're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. Then we're going to Washington D.C. to take back the White House. View quote
Howard Dean
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. View quote
Bob Marley
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. View quote
Louis Aragon
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. (William Blake)
There's so much gray to every story-nothing is so black and white. View quote
Lisa Ling
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters. View quote
Eden Ahbez
If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely needs, he would begin fattening a missionary on the White House backyard come Wednesday. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Over the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. View quote
Heinrich Heine
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. View quote
Morgan Freeman
My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears. View quote
Lord Byron
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. (Mark Twain)
I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor. View quote
Christopher Columbus
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. View quote
Robin Williams
My delight and thy delight Walking, like two angels white, In the gardens of the night. View quote
Robert Bridges