“I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.” YearsArtMadeArtistBlackWhiteDecisionCareersCreativePiecesYears AgoMagazinesArtisticApologyBlack And WhitePublicationPrestigious Author:Andrea Thompson
“Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.” YearsSaidTwoStoriesShowsNextFoundWhiteTelevisionYears AgoTwo YearsNext DayTelevision ShowsTwo Years Ago Author:Andrew Lloyd Webber
“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
“With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.” PeopleWayWantTryingYearsPlayKidsBlackWhiteRedYears AgoTricksRealisingDressingsStripesBlack MusicWhite Stripes Author:Jack White
“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.” WayYearsStillsRealEndsStatesFactsThreeBlackWhiteFiveFourProgressCenturyFiguresSixPercentAdultsYears AgoEducationalDecadesDespite20th CenturyLiteracyAnother WayEightyDisadvantagesSchoolingSurveysAssessmentIlliteracyAll State Author:Vin Suprynowicz
“America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.” ShouldYearsCountryAmericaWhiteFitYears AgoImmigrantsInclusionMold Author:Tom Gjelten
“Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.” PeopleWorldYearsCountryFacesCultureBlackWhiteStyleChangedPersonalitySceneUniqueYears AgoTwentiesImpactFollowingOur CountryRhythmSymbolsImmenseVitalityUnprecedentedPopular CultureIrreplaceableGood HumorRhythm And Blues Author:Jimmy Carter
“Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.” YearsTodayThreeWhiteTreeNew YorkYears AgoTheatreThree YearsAlleysChristmas TreeMug Author:Ben Hecht
“You all remember how many years ago, we were younger, it was uppity women who are trying to take our jobs as men. It was those gay people who wanted to make everybody homosexual in our school system. It was Blacks wanted to take white jobs. That's what demagoguery is about. It is to obfuscate the real problems facing our society and find somebody you can blame and rally the American people.” PeopleMenTryingYearsWantedSchoolJobsRememberWhiteGayYears AgoHomosexualGay PeopleSchool System Author:Bernie Sanders
“Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.” YearsSaidRealityWhitePiecesMediaYears AgoMalesAcademy Author:Julie Delpy
“It makes me wonder sometimes. Remember a couple years ago, when Mexicans went on strike? It was talked about a little bit but not that much. But some old white people, and there aren't even that many, they put bonnets on, and then they control the news.” PeopleYearsLittlesSometimesRememberBitsWhiteWonderCoupleLittle BitNewsYears AgoStrikesBonnets Author:David Sedaris
“I'd like to describe a sort of life 20 years ago as being a fried egg. There was a yolk and a white and the white was maybe work, and the yolk was life. Today, it's more of an omelet. It's more mixed and it's more interspersed and I think that that's a more interesting state of being and for some people, they'll say well I want the crisp, fried egg approach to life.” PeopleThinkingWantYearsWellsStatesTodayWhiteInterestingApproachYears AgoEggsCrispsOmelets Author:Nicholas Negroponte
“No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.” YearsEndsHappensWantedWhiteYears AgoDivorceRandy Author:Paula White
“A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.” MenYearsStillsUseTodayUsedWhiteTakenDogHundredYears AgoPoliceUniformsSheetsWhite ManBloodhounds Author:Malcolm X
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“My wife and I went to jail in Selma. The difference when I was back there recently? White folks? No. Black folks who were not scared. I was behind the president this time. When I was a little boy and ran around with trifling dudes, I was the only one scared of dogs. And I was bitten 14 times! Dogs smell scared. And that's the same thing with people: 50 years ago they smelled fear. There was no fear this time.” PeopleYearsLittlesBlackPresidentDifferencesWhiteBehindsBoysWifeDogYears AgoFolksScaredSmellMy WifeRanJailNo FearLittle BoysTrifling Author:Dick Gregory
“The Trump voter isn't just an ignorant white guy in the South that if he were more educated would vote differently. The Trump voter is also someone who is dealing with an entirely new economy that his father, grandfather or grandmother didn't have to face 30, 40, 50, 60 years ago.” IfsYearsFacesGuyFatherWhiteEconomyTrumpYears AgoVoteSouthIgnorantEducatedGrandmotherVotersGrandfatherWhite Guys Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“You ever go out to a restaurant now? You can get quality food - you can go out and get the best food that was available 20 years ago. They'll put it on a plate, you'll sit in a plastic chair because nobody values the chair, the white tablecloth, the maître d', but they'll put on your plate some great food for what used to be available at Applebee's prices. There are some really nice things going on, some external values being delivered to people.” PeopleYearsUsedValuesWhiteQualityNiceYears AgoAvailableUsed To BeRestaurantsChairsPlasticPlatesReally NiceNice ThingsGreat FoodBest Food Author:Ken Moelis
“Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.” PeopleYearsHas BeensMadeStillsDifferentCountryFactsProblemTodayLeftWhiteBehindsProgressYears AgoDistanceOur CountryAfrican AmericanNativeDeniedNative AmericanDisputesLeft BehindAsianLatinoLeft OutAsian American Author:John Lewis
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentStoriesWould BeBlackWhiteHalfMillionsYears AgoDecidedCrisisBarackBlack PeopleGenesEntitledWhitenessDifferent Meanings Author:Eric Liu
“What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?” MenYearsDoeStoriesLastsHouseLeadershipWhiteResponsibilityForeverFourMissingOfficeYears AgoBlameAdministrationBarackWhite HouseFour YearsGetting OldShifting Author:Paul Ryan
“Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.” YearsFirstsChildrenEyeAgeLyingBornWhiteYouthHairLoversHusbandMouthsYears AgoTerrorOld AgeStaringNecksSixtyPillowDeliriumWhite Hair Author:Philip Larkin
“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.” YearsLittlesStoriesAgeThreeWhiteKeysThousandClothesYears AgoSevenSnowThousand YearsEmperorBedtimeSnow WhiteDoomsdayBedtime StoriesNew ClothesNight TerrorsDaleks Author:Mark Gatiss
“There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.” YearsPhilosophyActionLawPoliticsSocialWhitePrinciplesMillionsEconomicPoliticianConceptsYears AgoAntsBolsheviks Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from