Eb White Quotes

Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings.

Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.

We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white.

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.

As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

I don't think the white establishment will ever respect or appreciate a black man who speaks the truth.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

That little white ball is always staring back at you, daring you to make a mistake.

Oh the thumb-sucker's thumb May look wrinkled and wet And withered, and white as the snow, But the taste of a thumb Is the sweetest taste yet (As only we thumb-sucker's know).

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea's voice to the men on shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.

My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over there and write misspelled words on them.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I felt my eardrums would burst with it.

The lawn was white with doctors

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this country 50 years ago.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she'd have a deep voice and we'd all be calling her Barry White.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.