White Quotes

On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

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.

I send messages to the White House continuously.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

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.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.