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Quotes About White

Peacekeepers, in pristine white uniforms, march on the cleanly swept cobblestones. Along the rooftops, more of them occupy nests of machine guns.
~ Suzanne Collins
Just her bones, darling. Just her pearly white bones.
~ Suzanne Collins
Another flock of white uniforms sweeps into the opening.
~ Suzanne Collins
I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.
~ Kajal Aggarwal
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
~ Byron Allen
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
~ Taylor Hanson
I grew up in a very white, privileged, old-fashioned society in South Africa and went to a boarding school run by nuns.
~ Prue Leith
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.
~ Bela Fleck
America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.
~ Linda Colley
An all-white space has a purity that is refreshing and serene.
~ Mary Helen Bowers
The 'safe spaces' for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and empowerment.
~ Shelby Steele
It's a trinity ring. Pink for love, yellow for fidelity and white for friendship. I liked the symbolism of three—you, me and baby-to-be.
~ Belle, Kimberly
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die
~ Charles Bukowski
White racism in Africa, then, is a matter of politics as well as economics. The story of the black man told by the white man has generally been told to serve political and economic ends.
~ Chinua Achebe
Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists.
~ Chris Hedges
Vigilante groups in America do not trade violence for violence. They are mostly white men who often prey on people of color and radicals. They are capitalism's ideological vanguard, its shock troops used to break populist movements and tyrannize the oppressed. And they will be unleashed against any mass movement that seriously threatens the structures of capitalist power and calls for rebellion.
~ Chris Hedges
The cross was God's critique of power—white power—with powerless love, snatching victory out of defeat.
~ Chris Hedges
If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.
~ Jasmine Guy
My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Sometimes I get into trouble with my husband for that. Then I run around like a lunatic cleaning up and creating the appearance of order.
~ Catherine Martin
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
In this post-post-racial, post-Obama era of resurgent populism and Balkanized identity politics, it really does feel as though it matters - and matters more than anything else - whether you're black or white.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
should also be noted that the Constitution's distinction in counting people for representation in Congress was between slave and free, not black and white. Free blacks were counted the same as whites—and free blacks existed before the Constitution existed.
~ Thomas Sowell
The sky was full of windy white rags of cloud;
~ Thomas Wolfe