“I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.” StillsImportantHappensWishChallengesWhiteRecordsMissingRight NowBandFulfillingStripesWhite Stripes Author:Jack White
“Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.” IfsSoulWhiteMillionsRecordsAliveHappenedSellingBrandsPackagesBrand NewAmyBeehives Author:Jack White
“Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.” GivingTwoCertainBlackWhiteRecordsHigherDemandGive MeInstitutionsProfessorsElitesScholarPublicationCredentialsHigher Learning Author:William Julius Wilson
“When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.” KnowsBigsSeemsAmericaYoungWhiteRecordsPlayerBrotherListeningBandJazzSouthSingersMy BrotherSouth AfricaDukesSaxophoneKittiesNinaVocalistJazz BandRecord Players Author:Miriam Makeba
“The Suns, meanwhile, appeared to be hoisting a white flag over the Arizona desert. With a 12-22 record at the time, they were clearing out big contracts for salary-cap relief and a chance to start over again the following summer. We are taking a step backward in the immediate run, .. But we're certainly looking forward to the future.” BigsRunningChanceWhiteStepsSunRecordsSummerFollowingDesertReliefContractsFlagsLooking ForwardSalaryStarting OverCapsArizonaClearingWhite FlagLooking Forward To The FutureClearing OutSalary Caps Author:Bryan Colangelo
“It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.” MenWantWritingBlackWhiteSilenceRecordsCrossesCourtSupremeRapperKillersCopSupreme CourtWhite Man Author:Ice T
“In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.” IfsMenJobsBlackWhiteRaceRecordsImpossibleBiggerHarderCriminalsFactorsUsaWhite ManExesFelons Author:Benjamin Jealous
“At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'” SaidStatesHouseSexLinesWhiteNumbersBoysRecordsBillsClintonPhonesSeekingJournalistWhite HouseSecretarySummitBriefingWrong Number Author:Jay Leno
“There was an embarrassing moment in the White House earlier today. They were looking around while searching for George Bush's military records. They actually found some old Al Gore ballots.” MomentsTodayFoundHouseWhiteRecordsMilitaryWhite HouseAlsEmbarrassingGoreBallotsEmbarrassing Moment Author:David Letterman
“The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'” MaySaidStoriesShowsBigsTodayRememberGuyHousePresidentWhiteRecordsSeeingDrunkWhite HouseOfficersPresident BushOctoberRemember MePayrollNational Guard Author:Jay Leno
“Hillary Clinton's a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she's dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. ... She's not the woman for the White House.” LifeDoeHardHouseWhiteRecordsHard WorkIntelligentClintonTrackAccomplishmentWhite HouseDedicatedTransparencyPublic ServiceTrack RecordIntelligent WomenHighly Intelligent Author:Carly Fiorina
“It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.” IfsChristianChurchWhiteRecordsCenturyTragedyHeightHistorianWhite SupremacyTwentieth CenturySupremacy Book:Strength to Love Source: Strength to Love
“More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.” PeopleThinkingHelpingMightWhiteResultsHalfAcceptingRecordsHip HopHipsHopsHelping People Author:Vanilla Ice
“To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.” PeopleIfsTodayWhiteRecordsBuyingQuartersTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Vanilla Ice
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” FilmBlackWhiteRecordsEventsUglyMediumsUncomfortableExcitementBlack And WhiteNastySignatures Author:Brian Eno
“I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.” KnowsTryingMeanI CanPlayFunnySoundBlackWhiteRecordsPlayerListeningLet MeToneTrumpetsJust Listen Author:Miles Davis
“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.” YearsSoulKidsUsedEnjoySoundWhiteCompanyRecordsRocksListeningBandPrejudiceRadioSingersLabelsBrownCrapRecord Companies Author:Miles Davis