Eb White Quotes

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.

Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

When it comes to racism, you hear people say, "I don't care if people are white, black, purple or green." Hold on, now, purple or green? Come on now, you gotta draw the line somewhere.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

Eating a slice of white bread is like eating pure sugar.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.

There will be no white flag above my door, I'm in love and always will be

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

I remember draft night, I shook David Stern's hand while rocking a red suit with white pinstripes and red gators I've always been a trendsetter.

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

We are now the proud owners of a white boy. Now we have to shop in the caucasian isle and get sunscreen, mayonaise and mild salsa because the other ones really hawt!