Eb White Quotes

Whenever there is discussion, I make it clear that I do not want any grey zones, just black and white.

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

The devil doesn't wear prada; I'm clearly in a -- white tee.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, it takes off seven years of your life.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

There's a communist living in the White House!

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.

I'm a former hippie; I did drugs back when they were healthy. The only time I ever did LSD was at Disney World. I didn't go there - it came to me. I was Snow White.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality.

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

From black and white to a sepia tone, some dreams come with a tint or in monochrome

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

If I were white I could capture the world.

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Scientists think they can now clone an all-white zebra. Now, I'm no expert, but isn't that a horse?

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.'

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have

I wouldn't say Donald Trump is a champion for white America, I think he shares a lot of the issues and values of white America.

Also, of course, I need my Dove soap. Of course I need my cocoa butter. I need my Listerine. I need the white Jockey tees. They are really soft and comfortable.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.