Quotes About White

You mean the nice little white man who sings? With the puppets?" "That's Mister Rogers's address. One forty-three. You know what one forty-three means?" "No, Soup." His stoic face folded into a smile. "I would tell you, but I don't wanna spoil it.

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.

With each concept, we change it up completely and the styles have been so diverse. For 'Boy in Luv,' we wore school uniforms. For 'Blood, Sweat & Tears,' it was a range of suits and white shirts.

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

If you could have had a fighter with David Price's body and my mind, you would have had the Great White Hope the United Kingdom has been waiting for for years. With my will in his body, we would have had this giant Scouser knocking everybody out.

There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.

To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women.

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

The America that clings to Confederate statues and flags, and that jealously guards the social privileges white Americans have long enjoyed, form the stalwarts of Trump's base.

Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don't conform to a mandated 'white' status quo can be redlined out of a space.

Miles Davis said there are two categories of thinking: the truth and white bullshit. The national anthem is white bullshit.

But my contribution to these troubled times will be inciting white women of a certain age to sexually profile Black student athletes who'd really just like to make it to the NBA in peace.

There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

You mean I have to get the confession from the white boy? They train these boys to lie, you know. If you're white they don't let you grow up to adulthood if you haven't mastered the art of pretending to say one thing while actually intending to do another.

Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man's sweat into gold and each moan of despair from a Black woman's throat into the sweet clear sound of a silver coin ringing on the money-changer's table. There was buying and selling of souls in that place. Yet there was nary a one of them who understood the whole price they paid for owning other folk.

the Palestinian colors. White our deeds, black our battles, green our fields, red our swords.

I don't know who started the myth that sheep are fluffy and white. They were more the color of an old mop and just as matted with dirt.

How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo.

Yet an obsession with white racism often comes at the expense of more broadly based alliances to affect social change and borders on tribal mentality.

Death has white hounds.

White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony.... White, Red, and Black, He said, wiping the blade clean on his sleeve. Snow white colors. That's what my brother use to call them. He liked that story a lot. But who would have thought they had such power.