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• I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.

  Mike Ditka

  Sports, Ice Cream, Snacks

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Nice, College

  "David Duke's View Of An Obama Presidency". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests.

  David Duke

  Government, Media, Ku Klux Klan

  "Duke Speaks Out". "The Crusader Newspaper", November 1978.

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• I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.

  John Dyer

  Sky, Sea, Water

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• We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Thinking, Two

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

  Roger Ebert

  Snow, Expecting, Complexity

  Roger Ebert's review of "Snow White and the Huntsman", www.rogerebert.com. May 30, 2012.

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• It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.

  Roger Ebert

  People, House, Catholic

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  Umberto Eco

  Educational, Black And White, Years

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• I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Drinking, Bears

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• Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.

  Idris Elba

  Opportunity, Differences, Black

  "From Space to South Africa: Idris Elba on Prometheus and Playing Mandela". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. May 27, 2012.

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• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  Idris Elba

  Ambition, Math, Black

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• Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

  Black Elk

  Clouds, Mountain, Three

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

  Rahm Emanuel

  Land, Office, House

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2012.

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• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Jobs, War, Fall

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• In the White House, you can be on the pitcher's mound or you can be in the catcher's position. Put points on the board. Show people you can govern. Deliver on what you said you were going to deliver on.

  Rahm Emanuel

  People, House, Boards

  "Rahm blames McCain for bringing up race" by Alexander Burns, www.politico.com. August 27, 2008.

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• Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

  Eminem

  Black And White, Past, Color

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• However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

  Frantz Fanon

  Destiny, Men, Black

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.12, Pluto Press

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• White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Islamic, People, Humans

  The Philadelphia Inquirer (p. 26), March 19, 2000.

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• Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

  Louis Farrakhan

  Circles, Black, Influential

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• I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.

  Tim Ferriss

  Wine, Firsts, Cases

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• The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Criticism, Fleas, Linen

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• White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.

  Ron Fournier

  War, Home, Issues

  "Here's Why The White House Leaked News That Obama Overruled Petraeus On Afghan Troop Drawdown" by Ricky Kreitner, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2011.

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• AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

  Ron Fournier

  Careers, House, Stories

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• The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

  Ron Fournier

  Broken, House, Political

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