Best White Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.”

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Author:Hank Aaron

“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.”

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Book:I Await the Devil's Coming

Source: I Await the Devil's Coming

“Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: 'So let it be written, so let it be done!' Like Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments,' the demander in chief stands with arms akimbo issuing daily edicts to his constitution-subverting minions.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.”

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Author:Nelson A. Miles

“Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.”

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Author:Zayn Malik

“Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.”

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Author:Grace Napolitano

“White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.”

Art Strong Given Black White Tradition Size Population Australia Black And White Cartoonist

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“The worst drivers are women in people carriers, men in white vans and anyone in a baseball cap. That's just about everyone.”

People Men White Worst Baseball Drivers Vans Caps Carrier Baseball Caps

Author:Paul O'Grady

“For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.”

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Author:Peter R. Orszag

“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.”

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Author:Tea Obreht

“The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“White man and black man, jew and gentile, protestant and catholic, will be able to hold hands and sing in the words of the ancient negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty! We are free at last!"”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?”

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Author:Chief Seattle

“"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."”

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Book:Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces

Source: Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces

“I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.”

Mean Sides Black White Picks Chocolate Black And White Chips Cookies Vanilla Picky Oatmeal Raisins Chocolate Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies Oreos Oatmeal Cookies

Author:Dylan Lauren

“Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.”

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Author:Guy Laliberte

“The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.”

Ifs Kind Mean Would Be Black White Black And White Grey

Author:Sarah Paulson

“On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.”

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Author:Tyler Posey

“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.”

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Author:Alan Parker

“I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.”

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Author:Christine Pelosi

“It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.”

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Author:Jean Pigozzi

“To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.”

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Author:Ryan Phillippe

“The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.”

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Author:Sally Quinn

“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.”

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Author:David O. Russell

“When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.”

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Author:John Henninger Reagan

“You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.”

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Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.”

“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.”

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Author:Daniel Sunjata

“I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.”

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Author:Sister Souljah

“I love chocolate. I like milk and dark chocolate, but definitely not white.”

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Author:Alicia Sacramone

“Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.”

Kids Black White Watches Gun Horse Black And White Spinning Upbringing Hee Haw

Author:Jamie Foxx

“But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.”

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Author:Janet Suzman

“That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.”

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Author:John Lewis

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