Eb White Quotes
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.
I am impressed with America's capacity for change, and their ability to bring someone as inspirational as Barack Obama into the White House.
I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.
Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.
But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.
The X-Games - I watch that; I'm not impressed. That's white dudes' desperation. They're running out of sports. They gotta find something that black dudes won't touch.
Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.
I'm thinking about American votes and American - all Americans, black or white have to be concerned about what's happening in the world.
For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.
When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.
Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.
I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.
Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man
Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.
It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.
The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.
It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.
The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!