Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sister Souljah

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?

Sinclair Lewis

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

Smokey Robinson

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

Smokey Robinson

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were the first white act to admit they grew up listening to black music.

Mekhi Phifer

The beauty of when you watch good television or films is that, yes, you may have a multi-cultural cast but those roles could be anybody - they could be white, they could be black. To show the world that we have more in common than we have different with each other is to me the ultimate goal of all of that. It does help unite in people's mind the thought that people are the same. Yes, there's going to be cultural differences, but for the most part, we are all in the same gang as human beings.

Michael Moore

White people scare the crap out of me.

Michael Moore

If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself?

Michael Moore

I voted for the black guy, and what we got was the white guy

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You’ve got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

Nina Arianda

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

John Simon

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

Nicholson Baker

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

Nora Roberts

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

Nat King Cole

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

Monica Lewinsky

I'm going to the White House to get my presidential kneepads.

Mike Melvill

It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.

Mike McCurry

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Mike McCurry

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

John Ruskin

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

Matt Tong

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

Max Cleland

The commission had to subpoena the F.A.A. for documents, had to subpoena NORAD for documents and they will never get the full story. That is one of the tragedies. One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up.

Matthew Perry

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

Matsuo Basho

Just washed, How chill The white leeks!

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Briggs

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Pat Paulsen

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

Pablo Neruda

White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.

Paula Deen

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

Mary E. Pearson

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Martin Sheen

Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Peggy Noonan

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition.

Marlon Wayans

I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.