Eb White Quotes

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.

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

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.

If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

I would like to have a big white wedding and eventually have a family.

I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

The purest white seems stained.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

I think women are usually a little bit nervous about wearing white denim. There are rules associated, body issues, all of those things.

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

The most interesting thing about being alive is that there is no black and white; there are many shades of gray.

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.

Black people playing tennis, next white people will be tap dancing!

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Life is never straightforward or emotionally black and white.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them... So you have a right to sing the blues.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down her house cooking said 'like white on rice.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists

I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.