Famous Quotes & Sayings

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~

Neil Diamond

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

Addie did nothing different than her white counterparts have been doing for years.

Ernest Thompson Seton

I have only one prejudice in horseflesh - I do not like a white one.

Erin Morgenstern

Is it not that bad to be trapped somewhere, then? Depending on where you're trapped?" "I suppose it depends on how much you like the place you're trapped in," Widget says. "And how much you like whoever you're stuck there with," Poppet adds, kicking his black boot with her white one.

Evan Sayet

Michelle Obama was asked when life begins. According to her it's when she and Barack take over the White House.

Muriel Spark

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Mo Udall

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

Moby

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

Moby

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

Moby

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad.

Mindy Kaling

Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white.

Jim Butcher

It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

Jim Butcher

Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.

Jim Butcher

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Jim Butcher

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

Jim Butcher

Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.

Jim Butcher

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

Jay Leno

The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House said, 'no no,' that they have payroll records to show that he served in the National Guard. But today, the commanding officers can't remember seeing Bush between May and October of '72. President Bush said, 'Remember me? I'm the drunk guy. Remember me?'

Jay Leno

John McCain said that Barack Obama is already measuring the drapes in the White House. That's what he said. I understand Sarah Palin is already driving McCain around to look at assisted living facilities.

Jay Leno

Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

Jay Leno

These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

Carly Fiorina

We need a different kind of leadership in the White House that understands how to get bureaucracies competent again.

Natalia Vodianova

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

Nancy Pearcey

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Julian Bond

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

Keith Richards

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

Katori Hall

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

Ishmael Reed

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.