Eb White Quotes

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orch-ard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people still don't understand it. It's not just black and white, you know?

She wore white heirloom lace about her throat And in her hair a bright golden feather A pearl like a plum hung ripe from her neck But her smile fetched ten gold together

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.

Black and white are absolute...expressing the most delicate vibration, the most profound tranquility, and unlimited profundity.

Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

So the shortest day came, and the year died, / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away.

What it is is that Barack Obama was raised by a white mother and two white grandparents who, A, told him he was black and that there was nothing wrong with being black.

In terms of favourite movies then, I like Lion King. Something more recent would be Alice in Wonderland; it'd be kind of cool to have The White Queen appear in Kingdom Hearts.

Words slip into a language the way white-green vines slide between slats in a fence.

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Nobody ever stopped reading E. B. White or V. S. Pritchett because the writing was too good.

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.

To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

I was never invited to the White House.

[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.

What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

A white wall is the paper of a foole.