Eb White Quotes

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in the world or is he the blackest white person in the world?"

My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular.

I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

Have you seen Bernie Sanders rallies? I haven't seen that many white voters since the Oscars. You know - oh, we have some Hollywood fans here.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin.

John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White.

As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite.

I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

There's relief in white space for the reader.

I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.

I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the shower, for Christ's sake.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

White folks still in the lead.

We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make stuff up to get worried about.

Every revolutionary thinker in America, White, Black, Brown or Red, never got the true representation from the corporate-controlled media.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.