White Quotes - Page 37

• I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

  Vanilla Ice

  Class, America, People

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 6, 1998.

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• More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

  Vanilla Ice

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

  Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

  Vanilla Ice

  People, Records, Today

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• Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Government, Years, Australia

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• I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

  Hugh Jackman

  Espresso, Australia, Milk

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• Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

  Jesse Jackson

  Christian, Liars, Issues

  "Some Layer of the Excitement is Gone". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. August 8, 2011.

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• When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

  Jesse Jackson

  Males, Constitution, Vote

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• You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, People, House

  "Jesse Jackson: Power, politics and the preacher man". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 1999.

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• Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.

  Jesse Jackson

  Ego, Church, Agendas

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• On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

  Jesse Jackson

  Zero, Moving, Games

  "Jesse Jackson: the Mother Jones Interview". Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• Basically, I'm in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don't have a lot of scope, and I'm really picky about what I wear. Even if it's weird, it's very particular to me. And you can't make a business out of what I would wear. We'd be out of business.

  Marc Jacobs

  Kilts, Shirts, Scope

  Interview With Calvin Klein, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 10, 2010.

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• I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Real, Mean

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• The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

  Naveen Jain

  Heart, Black And White, Brain

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Jay-Z, he knows precisely who he's going for - 14-year-old white suburban girls.

  Penn Jillette

  Girl, Years, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

  Penn Jillette

  Black And White, People, Straightforward

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Girl, Littles, Brown

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• Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

  James Earl Jones

  Up North, People, Grandpa

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Two, Dollars

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• Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

  Mother Jones

  Heart, Men, Hot

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• We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.

  Quincy Jones

  Block, Heart, Ghetto

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• We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Winter, Men

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• We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White Man, Vaccines

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• We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

  Chief Joseph

  Brother, War, Path

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• The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

  Chief Joseph

  Lying, Men, White Man

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