Eb White Quotes
Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.
There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
I grew up with the white picket fence. My dad went to work nine to five, and he had a station wagon.
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.
The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something.
Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.
I've always liked cops, as much as you can like a group of people, you know? Sure, I've been hassled, but I'm a white dude - privileged.
The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.
When you think about President Obama, he gives the president of China a five-star dinner at the White House. When somebody rips me off I don't give them five star dinners.
The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.
Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?
Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards...There's going to be a retard summit at the White House.
A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.
I entreat you to leave your work at home to the many who are ready to undertake it, and to come forth yourselves to reap this field now white to the harvest.
Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell? Or take your bodies honorless to Hell? In Heaven you have heard no marriage is, No white flesh tinder to your lecheries
If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.
I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.
There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.
No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove it.
Fifty years ago, 100 white men chasing one black man across a field was called the Ku Klux Klan. Today it's called the PGA Tour.
Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?
I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.