Eb White Quotes

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.

I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

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

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

I don't have anything against colour. It is just not my first preference. I have always found black and white photographs to be quieter and more mysterious than those made in colour.

This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people."

The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.

If in doubt, anything looks good with a white shirt.

One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams.

Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

I would have painted the White House black. I would have!

In the beginning it was all black and white.

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Processed pig is white trash meat. Some people call it Spam.

I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.

Your first name's white, your second is Hispanic, and your third belongs to a black. No wonder you don't know who you are.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.