Eb White Quotes

It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls.

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

My heart beats red, white, and blue. And with patriotism it aches Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights But in particular, cupcakes

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

We saw images and ideas from white supremacists literally shared from political campaigns showing up in the Twitter feeds of major news organizations. We saw it in our political rallies as well.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

I've got a checklist of things I want - including a Brit, a Grammy, an Oscar and a white poodle. Sometimes it gets lonely, and I want a baby too! I'm ticking things off the list.

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

... such speculation is like staring into the hot white sun. you know the sun is there but you can't see a thing.

Doctor, I have more education than most white people.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.

[Donald] Trump is what happens in America every time it feels economically and politically threatened, and it encounters the limitations of its own white supremacists practices.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

Bright, white coming alive jumping off of the aerial All the time it's a changing, like now.

When in doubt, wear white. I think white is a very important color just spiritually, and I think when you're feeling that way white is a great color to wear.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

Cause everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.