White Quotes

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

To me, it's the White House and always will be.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

I know what's good for me. I can't play black or gray. I can't be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.