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Quotes About White

There are some things, like sushi, that I'll still choose white for, because its flavor is so unobtrusive. But I actually prefer the nutty intensity of brown rice in stir-fries, grain bowls, and as my go-to grainy side dish.
~ Chris Morocco
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
~ Gail Collins
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
~ Robin DiAngelo
I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort.
~ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
The land beyond rose into dizzying mountains. Far across the way a frozen waterfall resembled a charging lion. The trees were shrouded in white, a vision of the heavens.
~ Rene Denfeld
At least the two beds looked normal enough, with their crisp white sheets, and there was a desk and chair in the front window, which looked out on to the garden, with a sliver of a view of the Grand Canal beyond. I went over to the window, opened it and gazed out. The scent of jasmine rose to greet me.
~ Rhys Bowen
The gulls are coming up from the sea, crying, and drifting across like pieces of mist, like fragments of white cloth. They turn their heads and peer as they pass.
~ Richard Aldington
Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham—catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn't make them bad people.
~ Rick Perlstein
A long white ribbon shot out of the crack in the wall. The ribbon just kept coming, weaving itself into some kind of shape next to Anubis, and my first thought was, My god, he's got a magic roll of toilet paper.
~ Rick Riordan
She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around her face, and she had dark, dark eyes. Jack realized that this was what the chansons meant when they referred to a beautiful princess in a castle. No wonder the knights all wept when the princess died.
~ Ken Follett
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.
~ Ken Kesey
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap.
~ Ken Kesey
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.
~ Ken Kesey
Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event.
~ Eileen O'Brien
But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.
~ Glenn Reynolds
I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.
~ Vivek Shraya
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and whiteNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive,If you will lead these graces to the graveAnd leave the world no copy.
~ William Shakespeare
Lawn as white as driven snow.
~ William Shakespeare
Next morning get up early and go to the Taj Mahal. Perhaps you've heard of it, big white building named after that Indian restaurant on the Lothian Road.
~ David Nicholls
White magic or black, it doesn't make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions
~ David Porush
is modeled after the floor of the Temple of Solomon, which featured alternating black and white tiles. The Masons copied the pattern — the floors of all Masonic temples and lodges are also in a chessboard pattern.
~ David S. Brody
By ignoring how white people's racial habits have been shaped by the racial practices of a nation deceived by the narrative of racial difference, white Christianity has failed to disciple men and women into the kingdom of God.
~ David W. Swanson
The Italian king of the dance floor has a deep-mahogany spray tan, shiny slicked-back hair and the most dazzlingly white teeth you ever did see.
~ David Walliams