Best shame & white Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.”

Hands Growth White Sweet Flower Hair Pride Despair Red Thirds Breaths Shame Rose Thee Colour Theft Thorns Bud Lilies Robbery Blushing Vengeful

Book:The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

Source: The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems

“United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.”

Mean Two States Stars White United United States Type Bears Fame Shame Scar Flags Alas Constellations Banner Stripes Emblems

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

“I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.”

Needs Feels Country White Deals Happened Shame Slavery Guilt

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.”

Men World Way Facts Black White Issues Perspective Couple Prejudice Shame Guilt Scripts Something New Peers White Man Black Women Embarrassment

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.”

“It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.”

World Made Dream Might Passion Memories Sleep Sin White Brain Youth Red Shame Filled Rose Mere Terror Gray Cheeks Stains Boyhood

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”

Home Light Mother Night House Black White Pay Morning Color Months Understood Paid Shame Bills Shoes Coming Home Uniforms Dirt All Night Mama Specks Morning After New Work

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“I stand, walk over to him, sit down on his bed, put my arms around him, hug him. He hugs me back strong and I can feel the shame coming through his arms. I am a Criminal and he is a Judge and I am white and he is black, but at this moment none of that matters. He is a man who needs a friends and I can be his friend.”

Men Needs Feels I Can Matter Moments Strong Black White Walks Judging Arms Bed Shame Criminals Hug Hug Me Million Little Pieces

Author:James Frey

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

Heart Hands White Color Shame Macbeth Play Neptune Lady Macbeth Macbeth Key Macbeth Conflict Macbeth Motif Darkness In Macbeth Macbeth Essay

Book:The Tragedy of Macbeth

Source: The Tragedy of Macbeth

“I would never normally approach a woman in this way, but I couldn't help but notice that you have the eyes of a lady I was once desperately in love with. " "What a shame to love only once," she said, showing her white teeth in a wicked smile. "I've heard some men can manage twice or even more." I ignored her gibe. "I am only a fool once. Never will I love again.”

Men Way Said Helping Eye White Heard Fool Approach Shame Teeth Manage Wicked Ignored Love Again White Teeth

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.”

Heart Littles Hands Eye Left Easy Water White Blood Sea Mines Ocean Red Shame Green Clean Deeds Colour Pluck Constancy Neptune

Author:William Shakespeare

“Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”

Mother Night Black White Pay Color Shame Uniforms Dirt All Night Specks

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.”

Men Believe Heart Has Beens Two Hard Done Bigs Earth Together White My Friends Horse Shame Native Native American White Man Making Peace Together Again Lodges Two Hearts

Author:Black Kettle

“Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was a Negro. Must I not also go hang my head in shame when a member of my race does something execrable? . . . The white race did not go into a laboratory and invent incandescent light. That was Edison. . . . If you are under the impression that every white man is an Edison, just look around a bit.”

Ifs Men Looks Doe Facts Light Bits White Race Mankind Members Benefits Glory Shame Impression Magnificent White Man Laboratory Doers White Race

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“I feel like Barack Obama's an Illuminati puppet. He's basically dragged this country down into the worst it's ever been. Like I say about the White House, 'You've built this house of shame'. Everybody looked up at the White House and America and now I think it's like a house of shame. I miss the old days when people were proud to be American.”

People Thinking Feels Country America House White Worst Missing Proud Built Shame White House Old Days Puppets

Author:Jonathan Davis

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.”

People Ifs Self Matter Artist Individual Black Dark White Shame Glad Dark Skinned

Book:Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

Source: Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

“The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.”

Thinking America Used House White Shame Used To Be White House

Author:Jonathan Davis

“The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.”

People Wisdom Black White Numbers One Day Shame Black And White Large Numbers

Author:Sam Mendes

“White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.”

“Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of a great people - a destruction which shames the whole white race.”

People World Whole White Race Crime Destruction Shame Whole World Guilty Nazi Great People Breakdown White Race

Author:Bronislaw Huberman

“Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.”

Source: I Heard the Owl Call My Name

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