Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jasmine Guy

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Jared Diamond

Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?

Janice Dickinson

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

Heidi Klum

I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

Ben Goldacre

Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

C. S. Lewis

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

Kim Harrison

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Miley Cyrus

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Charles Barron

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.

Barry Goldwater

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

Barbara Bush

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

Aries Spears

We are all a little bit racist. White people, y'all are the first people to denounce it. I'm not racist. I'm incapable of being racist. My best friend is black... He's also my chauffeur, but he's my best friend.

Brian Williams

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped over the White House fence for joy.

Conan O'Brien

The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates.

Conan O'Brien

President Obama said the small drone that flew over the White House fence yesterday could be bought at any RadioShack. After hearing this, the RadioShack CEO said, 'I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.'

Conan O'Brien

Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.

Ann Wilson

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.

D. L. Hughley

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

Constance Baker Motley

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

Constance Baker Motley

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Danny Kaye

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Douglas Adams

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief

Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've been to the White House a number of times.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Cynthia McKinney

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

Countee Cullen

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

e. e. cummings

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Douglas Coupland

The Vienna Franks are a good example of urban white acid folk revivalism crossed with ska.

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.