White Quotes - Page 31

• I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

  Josephine Baker

  Believe, People, Together

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• American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.

  Russell Baker

  House, Victory, Communism

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• It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

  Russell Baker

  Wine, Nursing, Glasses

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• Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

  James A. Baldwin

  Education, School, Black

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• You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Sports, Rapper

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• I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

  Charles Barkley

  Thinking, Black, Racist

  "Charles Barkley tells Brown 'racism is a cancer'". Interview with Campbell Brown, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2008.

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• Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

  Roseanne Barr

  Notebook, Girl, Wall

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

  William Bartram

  Borders, May, Settlement

  William Bartram (1794). “Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida (etc.) 2nd Ed. - London, J. Johnson 1794”, p.20

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• There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

  Standing Bear

  Men, White Man, Dust

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• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  Community, African American, Doe

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• Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

  Robert Benchley

  Summer, Men, Thinking

  Robert Benchley (1951). “My ten years in a quandary and how they grew”

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• 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.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Games, Yellow

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• Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

  William Blake

  Bible, Artist, Night

  William Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel”

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• I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

  Sara Blakely

  Way, Pants, Pairs

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• I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

  Sara Blakely

  Way, Trousers

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• Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mom, Mother, League

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• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Men, White Man

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.36

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• I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Black And White, Rome, Television

  "Anthony Bourdain: Giving Up Cigarettes 'Has in No Way Improved My Life'". Interview with Lindsay Silberman, www.tvguide.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.

  Danny Boyle

  Black And White, Next, Celluloid

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• In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Thinking, Southern, Soldier

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• Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

  Tom Brady

  Needs, Culture, Life Is

  "Tom Brady Talks Modeling, Kids & His Similarities To Gisele". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2009.

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• My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

  Jo Brand

  Personal Opinions, People, Racist

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• I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

  Jeff Bridges

  Black And White, Going Out, Daylight

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• First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

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• What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

  Sitting Bull

  Children, Native American, Men

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