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Quotes About White

Under the changes of weather it may look like marble or like sea water, black as slate in the fog, white as tufa in sunlight.
~ Saul Bellow
Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth5 as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.
~ John Calvin
Rape was an insurrectionary act…. I wanted to send waves of consternation throughout the white race.
~ Eldridge Cleaver
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It's called Silver Needle. It's unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
~ Antonio Banderas
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt -- O, marvelous error -- That there was a beehive here inside my heart And the golden bees were making white combs And sweet honey from all my failures.
~ Antonio Machado
To those who cite the disreputable sorts of pleasure one may fairly reply that these are not really pleasant. For we ought not, because they are pleasant to the wrongly disposed, to think they are generally pleasant, or to any but these; just as things that are wholesome or sweet or bitter to the sick, are not so to all, and as things are not really white that seem so to those suffering from opthalmia.
~ Aristotle
Seen through Durkheim's eyes, the real function of the excited gathering around Donald Trump is to unify all the white, evangelical enthusiasts who fear that those "cutting ahead in line" are about to become a terrible, strange, new America. The source of the awe and excitement isn't simply Trump himself; it is the unity of the great crowd of strangers gathered around him. If the rally itself could speak, it would say, "We are a majority!
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
Clearly there are kinds of sentimentality that media mobs favor. They condemn others as a way to pretend intellectual superiority.
~ Armond White
We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite a lot who get very far - let's take Boris Johnson- with considerable. White. Privilege. Failure after failure after failure rewarded.
~ David Lammy
At the very least, Donald Trump and his most rabid followers have been objective allies of the white supremacist movement, even if they thought they weren't.
~ Neil Macdonald
In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.
~ Pink
I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
~ J. K. Simmons
The moon's a dead rock, but I still like the word, so black in its white space. […] what can we say to the moon except You again? You again.
~ Franz Wright
when the Earth got cold, all the water in the air froze first and made a blanket ten feet thick or so everywhere, and then down on top of that dropped the crystals of frozen air, making another white blanket sixty or seventy feet thick maybe.
~ Fritz Leiber
thick, red-and-white-striped scarf wound around his neck like a Seussian python.
~ G.M. Ford
And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
~ Roy Bean
Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.
~ Susan Orlean
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
~ Sitting Bull
I think the FA wished I was white. I had the credibility, performance-wise, to be captain. I was consistently in the heart of the defence and I was a club captain early on my career.
~ Sol Campbell
I had this very strong intuition when working with children. The families I used to work for said, 'You're a white witch. You just know.'
~ Jo Frost
The difference between white witches and dark witches is that a white witch is very spiritual, into nature and can make magic happen. That is me.
~ Gemma Collins
Dark witches focus on dark magic, black magic and all kinds of horrible things. I don't believe white witches have warts on them either, or pointy noses.
~ Gemma Collins
One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.
~ Robin DiAngelo
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
~ Emanuel Celler