Eb White Quotes

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

My view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. Can't do it.

No matter who is in the White House, I just keep doing what my grandmother taught me. Hate debt. Save. The best any of us can do really.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

Why wear white? It's like, forget about dropping something on it. I don't understand how anybody wears white.

I still never get recognized. Small, bald white guys like myself - we all kind of look the same.

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same.

I am white, male, Norwegian and fairly resourceful. I am indeed among the least suppressed people on earth. If anyone can sing songs without fear, it should be me.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

My theory is because I'm Asian and white I sort of look like the future. I'm the melting pot.

This is what heaven's gonna be like. Not just a white church or a black church, but people.

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

I need to get everything straight. I'm not involved in a power struggle between black and white.

I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

I have worn my white and purple, colors of the Suffragettes, in honor of the fact that we have our first woman president, soon to be, Hillary Clinton, elected president of the United States.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. Hatsuharu Sohma: Just don't get arrested, okay?

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different experience."

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

One of the things I'm concerned about is that I really want to make sure the races of all the characters are kept. I don't like it when black characters become white in movies, or things like that.

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.

White girls tell me Hey Nicki your camp rules! Is that why you get more head than shampoos?

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

Archie Bunker used to call me 'the laziest white kid he'd ever met.'

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

When I countered that Archie Bunker didn't have to put down a race of people to say that, he replied, 'and you're the dumbest white kid I've ever met.'