Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eldridge Cleaver

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

Neil Diamond

As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'

Ernest Hemingway

Life is the best left hooker I ever saw, although some say it was Charlie White of Chicago

Ethel Waters

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

Ethel Waters

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.

Flannery O'Connor

The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

Henry Louis Gates

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.

Henry Louis Gates

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

Henry Louis Gates

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

Henry Louis Gates

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

Helen Keller

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Cassandra Clare

Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—” He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. “I…” “What?” “I’m not used to you loving me,” he said.

Cassandra Clare

Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white gauze. “Okay, now take off your shirt.” (Isabelle) “I knew there was something in this for you.” (Jace) ~pg. 329~

James Cromwell

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

James Broughton

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

Jamaica Kincaid

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Jack White

Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

Jack White

I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.

Jack White

I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss.

Elton John

He [Ryan White] had a kind of angelic aura about him. And his family, too, it's like, they are going through all this suffering, and I'm living this "Life of Riley" and I'm complaining about everything, and they are living this horrific life and complaining about nothing.

Jennifer Granholm

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

George Weinberg

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Jim Hightower

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Jeff Landry

Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

Jeff Landry

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Jill Abramson

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

Jesse Jackson

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Jesse Jackson

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

Jesse Jackson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Jesse Jackson

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

Jeff Gannon

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.