White Quotes - Page 38

• For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White Man, Land

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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, People, Killing

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Men, Want

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, People, Used

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• The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, White Man

  Documentary "The West", ("Episode 6: Fight No More Forever"), 1996.

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• Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Running, Coats, Statistics

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?

  Mindy Kaling

  Badass, Comedy Writing, Self

  "The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling Promotes Herself Out of The Office and Into The Mindy Project". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. September 9, 2012.

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• I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Hate, Armenia, Looks

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• White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

  Kim Kardashian

  Color, Car, My Favorite

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• As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

  Christine Keeler

  Girl, Horse, Real

  "The lady's not a tramp". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.

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• I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

  Anna Kendrick

  Queens, Games, Walking Dead

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• Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

  Jackie Kennedy

  House, President, Widows

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• Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, House, Political

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Black, Certain, Being Cool

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• The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

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• Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Jobs, Winning, Men

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• I don't know why we work, my husband and I. We just do. We are black and white - yin and yang.

  Heidi Klum

  Husband, Black And White, Yang

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• Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

  Caroline Knapp

  Black And White, Culture, Narrative

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• Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Children, People

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• During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Black And White, Achievement

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• Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, School, Cities

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• In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

  Diane Kruger

  Ideas, Dresses, Trust Me

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• I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, People, Southern

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• I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Kids, Racism

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