Quotes About White

I open the windows and let night enter the house, From far off white loneliness settles upon the white page. I am convinced it is an act against white loneliness to say so. from "The Man I Heard Of

I shake with seizure hysterics panic, I'm moving on all my limbs through bullets dying blood and pain they don't stop they run in among each other killing firing their rifles not a foot away from each other shooting as they are shot all eyes white, white, white.

But I remain what I was when I started my vocation, my pilgrimage of self-discovery: a black preacher. It is for that reason that I don't want to—really, I can't afford to—give up on the possibility that white America can definitively, finally, hear from one black American preacher a plea, a cry, a sermon, from my heart to yours.

The most radical action a white person can take is to acknowledge this denied privilege, to say, "Yes, you're right. In our institutional structures, and in deep psychological structures, our underlying assumption is that our lives are worth more than yours.

But the truth is that what so often passes for American history is really a record of white priorities or conquests set down as white achievement.

That is one reason most of the spotlight has been on green, white, and oolong teas, as they have about five times more EGCG than black tea.

If you drink your tea without lemon, green tea appears preferable to white tea. But if you add lemon, white tea jumps ahead.75 The reason is that while there are more phytonutrients in white tea, they may only be released at a certain pH level.76

There was the poignancy of a team in red, white, and blue uniforms- called the Patriots no less- attempting to reach an ideal that has long resonated the American soul.

Late afternoon he pulls up outside a white painted Baptist church with a wooden cross on the front wall above a sign that reads, JESUS DOESN'T NEED TO TWEET. pg 138

The host started smiling again, and they cut to a commercial for pork, the other white meat.

There were mortuary-white tiles on the floor, and the lights were fluorescent tubes that looked as if they would be fatal to insects.

If you're Black in America doing politics, Republicans have a tendency to be existential enemies. And white Democrats are totally unreliable.

Japan is not fucked because it lost the war or did bad things. Japan is fucked because there is no more war, and in peacetime everyone actually wants to be mediocre and is terrified of being different. The other thing is that the elite Japanese want to be English and white. That's pathetic, delusional, and merits another discussion entirely.

this isn't the land of appropriate—this is Hollywood, baby. Out here, a dark-skinned woman's traditional hair color is honey blond. A hip white woman's natural hair is gray-lavender.

We lived our little drama,We kissed in a field of white,And stars fell on Alabama last night.

Snow contains oxygen, which scatters light across the visible spectrum, making it appear white. Compacting squeezes out the oxygen, and the compacted ice crystals that remain absorb long light waves and reflect short waves. The shortest light waves are violet and blue. And so, the ice at the cold heart of Greenland is blue.

All power is saved, having no end.     Rises in the green season, in the sudden season the white the budded                                              and the lost.

We must remember that mentacidal conditions are the result of illnesses created within the constraints of white supremacist culture. The choices Afrikans make occur within these constraints. As we know, if you swim in a sea of perversity you are bound to get wet.

Annie, today I went outside and in the snow in the courtyard outside my dorm I built a replica of my childhood monster and wished you were with me. My snow monster was pure and white and guiltless, and I looked at it, Annie, and it struck me that it can never turn black and ugly like the monster of my childhood, because what is guiltless about it is what it is, not necessarily what it does. Even if sometimes what it does it bad, or cowardly, or foolish, it itself is okay, not evil.

And that's like my world." Annie pointed up to the stars again. "Inaccessible." "Not," I said to her softly, "to unicorns. Nothing's inaccessible to unicorns. Not even--not even white birds.

We tend to forget that an estimated three hundred thousand white southerners, many from the border states, fought for the Union side, and that four border states never seceded.

proslavery southerners contended that the greatest failing of the North was its dependence on a lower-class stratum of menial white workers.

Slavery ruined the "industry of our White People," he confessed, for they saw a "Rank of Poor Creatures below them," and detested the thought of work out of a perverse pride, lest they might "look like slaves.

The apple blossoms were just out, dancing like white froth in the April breezes.