White Quotes

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not be served in a restaurant. My father, mother, and I would try it occasionally. We would sit there, and the food would never come.

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.

I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.