Eb White Quotes

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red.

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.

It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

Find your bliss and your joy, know that you are a white light disco ball with no ceilings and no limitations.

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.

I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

The White House is saying Donald Trump has 'zero percent chance' of being elected. Isn't that a little high?

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

Look to the fields white unto harvest; pray for the fields; prepare for the fields; go to the fields or support those who go.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.