Eb White Quotes
I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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.
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.
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.
My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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.
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.
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.
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?
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?
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.
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.
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.
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
I do not look at the world in terms of black and white - and I find people who do rather scary. I think it's all shades of grey.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Face your reality. You, black or white, are not innocent anymore. Either you have the courage to face it or you will go down together with the whole idea of the American Dream.
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
Being dead wasn't supposed to hurt. Where was the fairness in that? If I was dead, the least the universe could do was make it painless
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.
I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.
I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.