White Guys Quotes

• I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

  William H. Macy

  Thinking, White, Guy

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• You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war !

  Chris Rock

  War, Rapper, Usa

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• There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

  Lennox Lewis

  White, Boxing, Guy

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• My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.

  Immortal Technique

  Block, Kids, Average

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• As long as I've been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.

  Miles Davis

  White, Long, Guy

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• All the signals that the Democratic Party is a party that tolerates snobbery and bigotry against, frankly, a lot of traditional Christians, a lot of white guys who work hard every day and who don't feel that they are on top of the world, those signals are clear and it's a turn off.

  Van Jones

  Christian, Party, Hard Work

  Source: pen.org

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• Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

  Ken Mehlman

  Party, Thinking, White

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• I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success of cool jazz in California, and that broke down into the white guys against the hard-blowing black guys in New York.

  Ashley Kahn

  New York, Cool Jazz, California

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• I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

  D. L. Hughley

  White, Guy, President

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• You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

  Russell Simmons

  Dope, Years, White

  "Russell Simmons Has Your Oscars Alternative". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. February 28, 2016.

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• I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

  Susan Rice

  White, Guy, Facts

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• Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beautiful, Character, White

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, www.english.illinois.edu. 2001.

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

  Moby

  Glasses, White, Guy

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be the white guy. And the other guy is his friend who is carrying the bag or whatever, and you're not going to light for that guy.

  Ava DuVernay

  Hero, Light, Two

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• And then there was moments with white guy where like we would be in Harlem. There would be five brothers in the corner, and this is an awful feeling but you're holding his hand and you want to pull your hand away cause you don't want the judgment. And you're gonna get the judgment even if it's just in looks. And the black men are the worst when it comes to judging.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Brother, Men, Hands

  Source: www.today.com

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• The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine.

  Tina Fey

  White, Illinois, Guy

  "Live From Studio 1A: Tina Fey Q & A". www.today.com. April 5, 2007.

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• All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.

  Bill Maher

  Song, Rap, Tired

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• One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

  Tony Snow

  Names, Npr, White

  "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2006.

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• There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

  Rick Derringer

  Country, Guitar, White

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• When it came to hip-hop... I don't know. Maybe I was insecure. You know, this is the early '90s. If you were a white guy, and you were rapping, that wasn't as accepted yet. I was scared of the quiet Northeast suburbs, so I couldn't embrace my full rapper self.

  Charlie Day

  Rap, Insecure, Self

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Rich white guys. That's the true minority.

  Cheech Marin

  White, Guy, Minorities

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

  Will Smith

  White, Jail, Guy

  "Fictional character: Will". "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Mistaken Identity", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

  Godfrey

  White, Racism, Guy

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• There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a lot of black comedians but if I wrote for a lot of gay comedians there might be stuff I would say then.

  Neal Brennan

  Hurt, Writing, Gay

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• That strain of anti-monopoly crusading egalitarianism really runs throughout American history from [Tomas] Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson, that finds its apotheosis in [Louis] Brandeis, continues through the New Deal, but then it sort of peters out in the '60s because progressives in particular become more interested in extending equality to minorities, and women, and other excluded groups, and little more suspicious of these old white guys, often from the south, who were crusaders against monopolies.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Running, Egalitarianism, White

  Source: www.slate.com

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