White Quotes

For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.'

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

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

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

I was the little white kid who rocked the turntables.

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.

It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president.

The roles for women have been either you're the mother or you're the whore or the lieutenant. They've been sort of limited, either way you're all good or you're all bad. What I'm loving about 'Red Widow' is the ability to really do move toward the Tony Soprano or Walter White or 'Dexter,' these character who are just complex, flawed.

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.