E B White Quotes

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good heart, soft touch, fast horse.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.

Everyone's always like, "Why don't you guys wear white ties?" You know why we don't? It's because they're in the wash.

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

When you have something in black and white, you can deal with it quicker.

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

The White Majority is the Problem

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and talk to white folks. It never happened before.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

Most brown bread is merely white bread with a fake tan.

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.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

The White House is now urging Americans not to 'read too much' into last week's jobs report. In fact, they said it would be best if you didn't read it at all.

The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change.

Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

It would appear that the state of Mississippi has decided to maintain white supremacy by murdering children.

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

I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Here is a tip for all you young people drinking wine. With pasta, drink white wine. With steak, drink red wine. And if you're vegan, you're annoying.

I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

The hoodies themselves aren't criminal. White people wear hoodies all the time!

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.

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