Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

Desmond Tutu

When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.

Desmond Tutu

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

Derek Walcott

Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

Della Reese

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.

Angelina Grimke

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.

Chuck Todd

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House, But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Angela Carter

Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

Angela Carter

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

Andrew Johnson

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Andy Stern

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Ann Richards

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Angela Bassett

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

Anne Enright

And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

Ann Aguirre

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

Andrew Young

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

Chuck Palahniuk

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

Chuck Klosterman

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

Chuck Close

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Christopher Moore

Devil's Food?" You can only eat so much white cake, my friend.

Andrea Tantaros

White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

Anne Sexton

Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.

Anne Sexton

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anne Sexton

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Andy Kindler

Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people - six black people: paid actors. James Earl Jones in his most difficult, challenging role! Tune in and attempt to watch him look pleased during a George Bush speech. And Clarence Thomas - as himself.

Ambrose Bierce

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

Anthony Hopkins

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

Alice Walker

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

Ann Coulter

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the President.

Ann Coulter

What I'm critical of is - the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we're elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn't qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I'm starting to feel sort of bad about - about saying that. And I'm annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.

Andy Borowitz

White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine.

Ana Castillo

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

Allen West

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.