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Quotes About White

It was early still, the sky white, nude.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
late-nineteenth-century recasting of the Civil War's achievement from African American emancipation to white reconciliation
~ Elizabeth D. Samet
The present called for justice, not for nostalgia over another extravagant failure on the part of blind and incompetent white men.
~ Elizabeth Hay
He's a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
would be an unprecedented climate for an unprecedented world, where silver carp glisten under a white sky.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
That's it," said Olive. She began walking, at her pace now. She said over her shoulder, "At least I'm not prejudiced against homosexuals." "No," he called. "Just white men with money." Damn right, she thought.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The Progressive president was also a keen white supremacist and insisted on segregating the U.S. Army in the same way he had most of the federal government
~ Arthur Herman
Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized.
~ Assata Shakur
Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized. I felt that instead of fighting together against a common enemy, they wasted time quarreling with each other about who had the right line.
~ Assata Shakur
I believe in uniting with white revolutionaries to fight against a common enemy, but i was convinced that it had to be on the basis of power and unity rather than from weakness and unity at any cost.
~ Assata Shakur
Arrogance was one of the factors that kept the white left so factionalized.
~ Assata Shakur
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
~ Audre Lorde
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.
~ Ben Folds
By some estimates, 80% of rap music is bought by white youth. And this makes for another irony. The blooming of white alienation has brought us the first generation of black entrepreneurs with wide-open access to the American mainstream.
~ Shelby Steele
Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
~ Jeffrey Wright
Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
~ J. D. Vance
My own particular feline companion answers, or rather doesn't answer, to Cinnamon. One of my kids must have given her the name, even though she's mostly gray and white.
~ Michael Dirda
I have my golden retriever now, Pontiac. He's a career-change guide dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind.
~ Betty White
I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.
~ Tommy Morrison
I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.
~ Ted Nugent
She was missing more references than usual. White ignorant folk like me, she thought, we're the immigrants today.
~ Gary Shteyngart
White sparks cascaded onto the trembling wick. It was as if there were shooting stars in his hands, like the stars at the bottom of the grave to which Silk and Hyacinth had driven Orpine's body in a dream he recalled with uncanny clarity. Here we dig holes in the ground for our dead, he thought, to bring them nearer the Outsider; and on Blue we do the same because we did it here, though it takes them away from him. The
~ Gene Wolfe
If you wonder why urban young black women are allowing themselves to be victimized by Planned Parenthood, look at BET, which is owned by very wealthy white Democrats.
~ Burgess Owens
I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?
~ Anita Shreve