Eb White Quotes

This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

The inside of the door is glossy white. A total re-paint. I touch it with my fingers, but it stays the same. It's so bright it makes the room waver at the edges. Every few years we disappear.

Paul Konerko is one of the greatest players in White Sox history, not only for his strength and performance on the field, but also for his heart and leadership off the field.

Galleries needn't be exactly like White Columns purely because times are bad again. But the idea of this special space could - should - help shape what comes next.

It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

If I were a white candidate, I'd have won the Democratic nomination.

When Blacks got the right to vote, white women got the right to sit on juries.

I don't think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won't coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white. I'm not a person that really deals in color.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

I guess maybe you don’t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

Stupid f***ing white man.

There are very few really stark black and white stories.

The White House is worried about Joe Biden's potential run for president, and a source says they fear that it wouldn't have the right outcome. That's right, they think he might win.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!

In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

It doesn't matter whether you're black, Hispanic, white. They're all in the same boat.

Humanity is a community, I don't care if your black, your white, your Christian, your Jewish, your Muslim. We are all one community and heroes really make us see what's possible at any given time.

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

I've only been three years in the industry - but I would say from my observations, my personal opinions, that the world in Hollywood and all the big movies has been built up as just white.

In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye to take in the meaning of the print as do the black letters.

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Even in my adult years, when I heard a white person speaking in a Southern accent I was initially suspicious.

For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Some visualize the Pistols era in shades of black and white. It wasn't. Actually, the colors I envision are neon or army dirt green with fluorescent pink--anything that would annoy."

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will ever win with the overwhelmingly white and male coalition they have now.