Eb White Quotes

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

There's nothing like white trash at the White House.

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

White for light. White for love. White for forever.

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with; doing so is the first obligation of a white antiracist.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers.

I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Some stories aren't black and white.

Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I’ve seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty

You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

I think the truth is black-and-white .

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

There are only two colors to paint a boat, black or white, and only a fool would paint a boat black.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

For a woman who lived in the dark it was enough if she had a faint, white face -a full body was unnecessary.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.