Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tariq Ramadan

South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.

Steven Morrissey

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last

Sue Monk Kidd

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

Strom Thurmond

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Richard Shelby

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

Richard Armitage

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ron Atkinson

His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

Truman Capote

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

Rick Riordan

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight.

Stuart Rothenberg

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

Stokely Carmichael

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

Stokely Carmichael

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Stephen Sondheim

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Rupert Murdoch

Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.

Rush Limbaugh

Have you noticed that when it comes to immigration we ride herd on legal immigration pretty damn hard, and who is it that really is subject to most of the limits there? Have to say it's white immigrants.

Rush Limbaugh

The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

William Cowper

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

Wayne McGregor

I heard Joby Talbot's Hovercraft piece for orchestra and felt its immediate physical impact - visceral, unsettling, hungry and direct. These short five minutes became our keystone to unlocking a strangely seductive score that tensions the aggressive force of the White Stripes with the enigmatic beauty of Talbot's own compositions.

Tove Jansson

Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.

Tyler, The Creator

The devil doesn't wear prada; I'm clearly in a -- white tee.

Tyra Banks

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

William Golding

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

William Bartram

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Xavier Becerra

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

William O. Douglas

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.

Zebulon Pike

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

Zadie Smith

I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.