Eb White Quotes

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.

I won my constituency. I won 55% of the white vote.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

The progressive approach to policy which directly addresses the effects of white supremacy is simple - talk about class and hope no one notices.

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

I came up with my own 'Dream Shake' I guess - the white version.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

When I was a kid, my goodness, corporate America was a bunch of stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be serious, and now it's stolid white guys in gray suits trying to be funny.

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.

Chemistry dissolves the goddess in the alembic, Venus, the white queen, the universal matrix, Down to the molecular hexagons and carbon-chains.

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.

I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.