Eb White Quotes

[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.

The whole white world is ours.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans - white Americans - is weakening.

Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job.

I couldn't be a White Sox fan because that was like being a Mets or a Yankees fan.

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

Dealing with race is about educating white folks.

If you're white, you're alright. If you're brown, stick around. but if you're black, oh baby. Get back, Get back, Get back.

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.

Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind.

That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.

He nodded and curled over his paper, writing quickly. As his words took form on the white page, she got to watch him...and realized she never wanted him to go. She wanted him here beside her forever.

Any man with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most.

I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.

It is often stated that when an Angel descends to the earth, it brings with it a part of the light of the heavens, thus perhaps explaining the strong association of white to represent that light.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,” Lula said. “So I guess this works out good.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy." -white oleander

I'm aiming to become the white Oprah.

The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.

Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.

It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records.

Here's the latest from the Pentagon -- the generals are worried that the White House is spreading itself thin by trying to fight a war on two fronts; Afghanistan and Fox News.

Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.

Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.

When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin' Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. 'They finally taught a white boy to do this.'