Quotes of White - somelinesforyou

“ When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. ”

- Vine Deloria Jr.

“ I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians. ”

- Anthony Quinn

“ The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away. ”

- Marcia Moore

“ I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For growing near earth? ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture. ”

- Merle Woo

“ We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white. ”

- Henry McNeal Turner

“ If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?' ”

- John Wayne

“ In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us. ”

- Connie Chung to Johnny Carson

“ The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow — red, yellow, brown, black and white — and we're all precious in God's sight. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than. ”

- Janet Campbell Hale

“ The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. ”

- James Weldon Johnson

“ The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ”

- James A. Baldwin

“ Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight. ”

- Jesse Brown

“ I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. ”

- David Duke

“ Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ”

- Tiger Woods

“ I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly. ”

- Al Green

“ As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ”

- August Wilson

“ Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States… ”

- Cornel West

“ My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. "I've had enough of someone else's propaganda," I had written to these friends… ”

- Malcolm X

“ When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees… ”

- Wintu Woman

“ White people in this country are tweaked. We are raised to believe a myth of White superiority. Malcolm X, in The Autobiography of Malcolm X, said that White people's belief that they are 'superior' in some way is so deeply rooted that these things are in the national White subconscious. ”

- Jane Elliott

“ Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout. ”

- Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve

“ As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ”

- Harper Lee

“ The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. ”

- Eldridge Cleaver

“ They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion — not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. ”

- William Faulkner

“ You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. ”

- Ed Meese

“ Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind. ”

- Austin O’Malley
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