Eb White Quotes

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.

Face flushed, I shook my head and stared at my white-knuckled grip on the bed. Of all my pet peeves, condescending adults were probably at the top of the list.

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

Not all white people are bad.

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody.

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.

[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

White is an attitude.

The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

America is a white man's country.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!

America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South.

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

If a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.

This year [2016], however, polls show [Hillary] Clinton winning white college-educated voters by double digits.

[Donald] Trump's path to victory depends on getting historic levels of support from white voters, and particularly large numbers of white, non-college-educated voters.

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

I think white people like to tell Asian people how they should feel about race because they're too scared to tell black people.

... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Chavo or Kerwin White or whatever his name is! He called me stupid.

Blood trickles from my throat, on to Kate's white nightgown. She screams at the sight. 'Jarrod, you're bleeding!' 'I'm all right, don't struggle I won't let it get to you.