Eb White Quotes
For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.
I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.
Let animals live like animals
Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.
AUNT SHADIE:I see you - and don't worry, you're not white.ROSE:I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English.AUNT SHADIE:White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.
Molly Cade, you could be wearing a White Sox shirt, a Yankees thong, and a Packers Cheesehead and I would still want to do you.”She sighed. “Such a romantic.
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
We are the pioneers of the world
She is so lovely she could kill you without you even noticing it. A monster girl who knows when to kiss and when to kill.
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure.
Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.
It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.
She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.
Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.
White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.
The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.
Black Is The Most Beautiful colour because it does not reflect it absorbs all into itself.
Other unsolved murders or untimely deaths were readily blamed on the supposedly sinister Jews: If a Jewish doctor failed to save a life, the whole Jewish community might be attacked and fined.
White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.
When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666
I denied Discordia and regret nothing
Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.
This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.
In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white, " until later their true colors come out.
Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, " Snow said. "It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.
It's too cold outsideFor angels to flyAn angel will dieCovered in whiteClosed eyeAnd hoping for a better lifeThis time, we'll fade out tonightStraight down the line
To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering
No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey
You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life, ' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.
White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening
There was something familiar but strange about her - Snow White with a suntan. Cinderella in biker boots. Tough and delicate and magical and real all at once.
Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.
In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.
If the American president is going to rain, then the White House must be busy now of making clouds
A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.
From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander
I have wondered that even in the era of colour the black and white photographs are so appealing? I feel that as per saying - in black and white -they speak the truth.
White Space is where the world and all distraction falls away. Where the voice of the Divine can be heard. Where the Truth of who you are is found. Where miracles happen.
When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!
I'll show Dunky he's not the only one in the family who can rush foolishly into danger!