Eb White Quotes

My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

I learned to dance at quinceañeras - big [15th] birthday parties for Spanish girls. It was always funny to bring the white guy out [on the floor] and let him look like a fool.

Hillary Clinton'll be Madam President and we'll be in the White House.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with all-white meat.

I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, 'Wow, it doesn't get any better than this!'

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

If he [Donald Trump]can boost Mitt Romney's performance five points among white folks, he could have a shot.

Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

When you're white, the sky's the limit. When you're black, the limit's the sky.

I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over my group. It scattered when I left.

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

Donald Trump is doing remarkably badly among non-white voters and there are lots of them in Arizona.

Excuse us for the news, You might not be amused; But did you know White comes from Black? No need to be confused.

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

I played a girl. There's really nothing controversial about her. She's just fine. She has to be fine in order to make Sarah Jessica's character pop, I say I just play a white girl in that movie.

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?

Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a minority, that they're not going to get the white male vote.

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in a wealthy country.

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time.

Relationships are not straight forward. They're not black and white. Sometimes things don't always going in a straight line, and that's okay. Love can be very confusing.

America is not a white man's republic.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.

I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality.

It seems like there's never enough famous white people among comic in Hollywood.

New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.