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Quotes About White

This was simple prudence, white men being so much alike at a distance that he could not tell who I might be.
~ Joseph Conrad
Far from being destroyed, however, the white "politics of difference" is now being trumpeted as an ideology of victimization. The situation would be farcical if it weren't so dangerous, reflecting venerable white anxieties and fortifying the drift to the right which, now as in the past, is highly conducive to race-baiting
~ Wahneema Lubiano
as elusive as a fleck of shell in a pool of slippery egg white.
~ Wendy Corsi Staub
I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
ubiquitous green-and-white sign.
~ Daniel Silva
A politically divided and destabilized America - an America drifting toward white nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism - will pose no challenge (...). Page 467.
~ Daniel Silva
Covers by a thousand bad white blues imitators damn near wore the song out.
~ Dave Marsh
And because they're not, when disaster strikes, it tears the curtain away from these festering problems . . . and black and white, all of us should be concerned to make sure that's not the kind of America that's reflected on our television screens.
~ David Axelrod
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.
~ James Broughton
Before the discovery of quinine in the mid-nineteenth century, white armies could not survive in malarial regions, however superior their weapons might have been.
~ James Dale Davidson
The guard waved as the iron gate slowly swung open. Inside the gate, Fred drove the Mystery Machine between two huge white buildings bigger than football fields. He turned at the stop sign and pulled up in front of another enormous white building. The gang piled out of the van.
~ James Gelsey
The upper South, like the lower, went to war to defend the freedom of white men to own slaves and to take them into the territories as they saw fit, lest these white men be enslaved by Black Republicans who threatened to deprive them of these liberties.
~ James M. McPherson
This was fresh, rich, heavenly, succulent, soft, creamy, kiss-my-ass, cows-gotta-die-for-this, delightfully salty, moo-ass, good old white folks cheese, cheese to die for, cheese to make you happy, cheese to beat the cheese boss, cheese for the big cheese, cheese to end the world
~ James McBride
In some of the most heavily populated slave states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia—between thirty-five and fifty percent of the white families held slaves in 1860.
~ James Oakes
Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.
~ James Sallis
the first American Shakespeare expert, Richard Grant White
~ James Shapiro
of huddled anonymity like old black and white photos I'd seen of bank crashes and bread lines in the 1930s.
~ Donna Tartt
She was sitting quietly on the bank of a stream with her feet in the water, her robe perfectly white, and no blood anywhere except for her hair. It was dark, and clotted, completely soaked. As if she's tried to dye it red.
~ Donna Tartt
a drve?e je ispred na cesti cvalo bijelim praskovima delirija.
~ Donna Tartt
White vividly recalled sitting "pop-eyed with wonder" at the edge of his chair while Roosevelt spoke "with a kind of dynamic, burning candor" about his plans.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
His long, amiable face looked as if it had generated spontaneously from his top hat, as white maggots breed from Gorgonzola.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The long white fingers tamped the tobacco firmly into the bowl and struck a match.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
~ Douglas Adams
Povero me!' dice Dio. 'Non ci avevo pensato!' e sparisce immediatamente in una nuvoletta di logica. "'Oh, com'è stato facile!' dice l'Uomo, e, per fare il bis, passa a dimostrare che il nero è bianco, per poi finire ucciso sul primo attraversamento pedonale che successivamente incontra.
~ Douglas Adams