Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mick Jagger

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

Michelle Malkin

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up.

Michelle Obama

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

Michael Pollan

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

John Henrik Clarke

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

John Berger

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

Joel Fuhrman

Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.

Joan Rivers

On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

Jimmy Fallon

Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to 'be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.' And then President Obama stuffed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday.

Jimmy Fallon

Yesterday, the White House confirmed that President Obama will meet with Pope Francis during his visit in September. Some experts are wondering if they'll discuss their disagreement over contraception. Then Joe Biden said, 'I didn't even know they were dating.'

Jimmy Fallon

A group called Draft Biden 2016 has started selling bumper stickers that say 'I'm ridin' with Biden.' It's a lot better than the other one that women around the White House have started using - 'I'm hidin' from Biden.'

Jimmy Fallon

A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'

Georg Trakl

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

George Clooney

I'm really white trash.

Gayle King

I grew up in an all-white community.

John Crowe Ransom

Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

Joel Osteen

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.

Joe Arpaio

It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

John F. Kennedy

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

John F. Kennedy

The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.

Lindsey Graham

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Linda Tripp

I just know that what happened in the Clinton White House should never have happened to anyone.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Linda Chavez

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

Leelee Sobieski

If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'd be madly in love.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald Trump has been getting favorable comments from white supremacists, from American Nazis. And any explanation of Donald Trump`s rise that does not include those facts is a false analysis.

Lewis Carroll

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Lewis Carroll

Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.

Josephine Baker

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

Joseph Campbell

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Karl Popper

No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.