Eb White Quotes

the Coleman lantern is the symbol of the camping craze that is currently sweeping America, with its unholy white light burning in the forests of America.

The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

What does America love more than one white male?

The more divided people of color are in a system of white supremacy/privilege, the weaker they will be, both individually and collectively.

The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage- and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on the beach?

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

Witch hunters is white women’s worry.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.

God created people in technicolor. God has never made a difference between black, white, blue, green or pink

Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps them out of sight.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

If I had to pick between Heaven and Hell, I'd pick Hell, because I can't keep white clean.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul.

I'm so sick of Betty White. Never liked her.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House.

You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.