E B White Quotes

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

I have become an orchid washed in on the salt white beach. Memory, what can I make of it now that might please you- this life, already wasted and still strewn with miracles?

The whole world knows that I am a Madridista by heart; White until the death.

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

Even if you apply any kind of lotion and straighten your hair you will never be white.

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

There is a little bit of Hitler in all white people.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave.

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.

I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

I dreamt that I could paint you with words, but there were no colors bright enough, black or white enough, blue or green enough...they didn't mean enough

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house

Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Are you gonna look me in the face and tell me that?