Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

Carrie Chapman Catt

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

Carrie Fisher

I'd like to wear my old [cinnamon buns] hairstyle again - but with white hair,

Bertrand Russell

The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Billy Boyd

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.

Ayn Rand

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

C. S. Lewis

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

Kim Harrison

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Miley Cyrus

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Kym Whitley

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

Boris Vian

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

Argus Hamilton

Hillary showed off a new set of White House china at the mansion's 200th birthday dinner Thursday. She said she helped design it. It's thanks to her that all the White House china looks like it's been glued back together.

Aretha Franklin

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

Aravind Adiga

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

Ben Nelson

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Bashar al-Assad

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes to destroy it must destroy an entire people.

Augusten Burroughs

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

Diane Kruger

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This...

Dennis Prager

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

Dennis Prager

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.

Dennis Franz

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

Dee Dee Myers

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Eleanor Clift

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Eldridge Cleaver

I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.

Sarah Palin

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

Banksy

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.