Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karl Marx

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Julia Child

I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth,

Glenn Beck

You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would call it today.

Jennifer Chiaverini

What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.

Jeff Greenfield

George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jean Shepherd

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Jean Rhys

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

Jeff Landry

Until the president produces a responsible deficit reduction plan, I'm not going to the White House to negotiate with myself.

Jeff Landry

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

Jill Abramson

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.

Jesse Jackson

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

Jesse Jackson

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

Jesse Jackson

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

Jesse Jackson

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

Jennifer Morrison

I'm trying to incorporate colour into my life. Until recently, everything in my closet was black, white, grey, navy or olive.

Jeff Gannon

All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.

Jeff Foxworthy

I had to perform at the White House for the president, That's always kind of a weird set to try to put together.

Jeff Foxworthy

If your thighs look like the hood of a white Toyota minivan after a hailstorm, you aren't juicy.

James Cameron

God wears white flannels.

James A. Baldwin

Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

James A. Baldwin

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

James A. Baldwin

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

James A. Baldwin

White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

James A. Baldwin

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Jackie Kennedy

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

Fulton J. Sheen

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

Franklin Pierce

After the White House what is there to do but drink?

Jennifer Granholm

I really want to be governor when I have a partner in the White House.

George Weinberg

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Jim Hightower

What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.

Eminem

I would love it if, even for one day, you could walk through a neighborhood and see an Asian guy sitting on his stoop, then you look across the street and see a black guy and a white guy sitting on their porches, and a Mexican dude walking by.

Eminem

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'.

Eminem

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.