White Quotes

We must have black troops, and a limitless number of them too - paid and treated like their white brothers.

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.

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.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

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.'

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.