White Quotes - Page 78

When you spend your life acting and being other people, as opposed to being the one person that you are, you learn that life is gray sometimes, not black and white. That what you thought was true isn't necessarily true if you switch sides.

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

One of my strongest memories is my father playing bongos in the living room in Detroit listening to Motown radio. He was this skinny white bald guy, but he was really moved by blues and Motown and funk.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.

[A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.

If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

White lost because he failed to remember the right continuation and had to think up the moves himself

Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

I am grateful for what I call well-spent moments: Making a tuna fish sandwich with the works. Taking at least a half hour to eat it outside. Ironing my vintage tea towels while watching old black-and-white film noir movies and sipping one martini with extra olives - a quirky combination, but it works.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.

There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.

I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But then, I have great difficulty examining what men in general could possibly do about all this. In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist? No, I really don't mean that. Yes, I really do.