“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.” ThinkingKindPersonsPlayLightAbleGuyActorsWhiteColorAfrican AmericanStereotypeLatinoAmerican GuysEthnic Stereotypes Author:Daniel Sunjata
“Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.” WritingSoulMightGuySongWhiteSingingBottomGutsBobDylanWriting SongsLennonSpringsteen Author:Robin Thicke
“The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.” WorldSometimesShowsKidsJoyGuyCultureStuffSidesWhiteBrownOutsidersAbsurdityFenceBoth SidesGreat JoyInsidersDaily Show Author:Aasif Mandvi
“We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.” WorldShowsGuyBlackWhiteBlack And WhiteVersusBad GuysUpside DownGood GuyFreemanWorld Upside Down Author:James MacArthur
“The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?” GivingDoeGuyHousePoliticsPresidentChanceWhiteWindWhite HouseTexasVacationPresident BushUnwind Author:David Letterman
“When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.” IfsKnowsSelfGuyWhiteQuietEmbraceScaredHip HopRapAcceptedHipsHopsRapperInsecureSuburbsWhite Guys Author:Charlie Day
“The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.” NeedsKindDoeGuyWhiteComedyToo MuchDemocratBoringSmokeSenatorsJuniorsCocaineShowing OffIllinoisWhite Guys Author:Tina Fey
“I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.” PlayKidsGuyWhiteRocksFrontsQuietBandEgoAmbitionGuitarSuitsRock N Roll Author:George Harrison
“The apocalypse is coming, that's the one thing I like about George Bush, I really think he can get us into the ... apocalypse, like the BIBLICAL ... I really think he believes that he'll be the guy in the white hat. I think he's read the Stephen King novel The Stand a couple times, and he really thinks there's a dark man in the desert somewhere and he's gonna fight him or something.” ThinkingMenBelieveGuyFightingDarkWhiteNovelOne ThingCoupleKingsDesertHatsBiblicalApocalypse Author:Patton Oswalt
“Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.” GuyWhiteCareersRichSawsIndiaGuiltWesternUniversityInvention Author:Slavoj Žižek
“One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.” IfsLooksMadeProblemPoliticalGuyNamesHeavenChanceWhiteSakeSnowPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessWhite GuysNprKipling Author:Tony Snow
“Some Secret Service guys crashed a car into the White House. And they had been drinking when it happened. Actually, they hit a barrier trying to get to the White House. It's the same thing that is happening to Hillary.” TryingGuyHouseWhiteSecretHappenedCarHappeningsDrinkingBarriersWhite HouseSecret Service Author:David Letterman
“We're not like some of those 'Elvis' guys you see in the grocery store, buying their stuff while dressed in a white jump suit, that sort of thing. We love doing what we do, we appreciate and respect our audiences, we have a true love of The Beatles.” GuyStuffWhiteAudienceAppreciateStoresSuitsBuyingGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:Steve Landes
“White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.” ThinkingDifferentGuyWhiteStupidSorryFolksBunchTattooI'm SorryThink Different Author:Charles Barkley
“My hands are heavy and most importantly they are very fast. I have been called the fastest white man alive. I don't work submissions and not because I am trying to prove something I'm just frankly not very good at 'em. I am very good at getting away. I've never fought anybody whether it was in practice or competition who could hold me down. Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide T.V. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that” IfsMenTryingHas BeensHandsGuyWhitePracticeAliveTheoryRepublicanProveCompetitionVery GoodHeavyLegsSpreadEmsGet AwayWhite ManSubmissionHold MeGrown Man Author:Chael Sonnen
“South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here. That was what the sheets and the suits and the ties covered up, not very well. That was what the cowardly guys calling me names from their speeding truck wanted to happen to me, to all of me: to my people. That was what would happen to me if I walked around the corner into the wrong neighborhood. That was Birmingham. That was Brooklyn. That was Reagan. That was the end of reason. South Africa was how I came to understand that I am not against war; I am against losing the war.” PeopleIfsWellsWarEndsReasonHomeSeemsHappensWantedUsedGuyNamesWhiteCallingLosingHatredSouthCornersSuitsTiesNeighborhoodCoveredFar AwaySouth AfricaSheetsTruckBrooklynCowardlyAround The CornerSpeedingBirminghamAgainst WarCovered Up Author:June Jordan
“I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.” ThinkingTryingYearsMeanI CanCharacterGuyWhiteFiguresMonthsCoupleFemaleYears AgoDinnerTerroristAfrican AmericanTrashFemale CharactersWhite TrashSchmucks Author:Jeff Dunham
“All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.” LooksKindLittlesGuyWhiteGlassesWhite Guys Author:Moby
“Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.” WorldCharacterBeautifulGuyWhiteRocksUglySurfaceBeautiful WomenRock MusicWhite Guys Author:Sherman Alexie
“My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.” IfsLittlesGuyBlackWhiteMarriedIdealsMarkBlack And White Author:Toni Braxton
“I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.” FactsGuyWhiteConsciousFolksDisadvantagesWhite Guys Author:Susan Rice
“The big guys, the big dogs, are going to own everything from the White House to the courthouse.” BigsGuyHouseWhiteDogWhite HouseBig GuysCourthouses Author:Brian Schweitzer
“Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.” KnowsGuyWhiteJailWhite Guys Author:Will Smith
“One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.” GuyFatherMemoriesWhiteRoomsListeningMovedRadioStrongestSkinnyLiving RoomDetroitFunkMotownBongos Author:Sufjan Stevens
“John Kerry's victory over Howard Dean has completely changed the presidential race around. Now instead of the rich white guy from Yale who lives in the White house facing off against the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Vermont, he may have to face the rich white guy from Yale who lives in Massachusetts. It's a whole different game.” MayDifferentWholeFacesGuyGamesHouseWhiteRaceRichChangedVictoryPresidentialWhite HouseDeanYaleJohn KerryMassachusettsVermontWhite Guys Author:Jay Leno
“Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn't it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn't do coke goes to Columbia.” JobsGuyFoundHouseWhiteTeachWindUniversityJournalismWhite HouseAlsIronicGoreCokeNew JobColumbiaColumbia University Author:Jay Leno
“For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.” FirstsGuyHousePoliticsNatureLeadershipWhiteHistoryDemocracyComedyGenerationsPolicyFirst TimeVoteIndividualityChosenIdeologyWinnerVotingSilverOnlineWhite HouseTurkeysFarmingPardon Author:Barack Obama
“When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.” TryingKidsAmericaGuyWhiteSeriousGoodnessBunchSuitsCorporateGrayWhite GuysCorporate America Author:Emo Philips
“Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.” ThinkingBigsTogetherLastsGuyWhiteRichRepublicanDebatePresidentialCandidatesTonightLast TimePresidential CandidateWhite Guys Author:Jay Leno
“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.” WorldWantedGuySpeakWhiteComedyMomMy MomImpressionComedianJamWhite Guys Author:Jordan Peele