Quotes About Power

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.

Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

You can be poor, middle class, or rich - it doesn't matter. The black card will still confer upon you an entire history of oppression, even if you've never been oppressed. Flash the black card, and most white people will cower.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

The white man is destroying the world.

The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.

Alchametic magic is 'How do I create something out of nothing purely through manifesting my will through power and light, which is value.' That's white magic. That's alchametic magic.

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the same time. They got me looking at other contemporary art. I was gravitating more and more toward work that had visceral power, that wasn't necessarily about being beautiful but had some kind of horror in the palette.

At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.

It must be so nice to be a white male.

I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

'The White Princess' follows Princess Lizzie, who was forced into marriage with Henry Tudor. It's kind of about how their marriage united the Yorks and the Tudors - the two families do rival but have to unite.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.