White Quotes

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, well, I don't have a book, and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.