White Quotes

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

But I think the possibility of a black and white society feeding each other's expertises, living harmoniously, will probably go along in fits and starts now but at least it has a great constitution now to back it up.

I send messages to the White House continuously.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

We don't live in a world that's black and white.

I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'