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• Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

  Paul Krugman

  Elderly, People, Arguing

  "GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 9, 2012.

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• Don't hate the black, don't hate the white. If you get bit, just hate the bite.

  Sly Stone

  Hate, Black, Bites

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• All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, Nature, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.652, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.74, Xist Publishing

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• It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Morning, Fall

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8218, Delphi Classics

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, Snow, Church

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.375

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• At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

  Charles Dickens

  Tombstone, Wind, Iron

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

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• After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Beer, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.312, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

  G-Eazy

  Growing Up, People, Hip Hop

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• I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

  G-Eazy

  Artist, Hip Hop, Hips

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• I just think that Jack White is the consummate artist - an artist's artist. I'm a huge fan.

  Miguel

  Artist, Thinking, Fans

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• So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.

  James W. Loewen

  Color, Europe, Long

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.85, The New Press

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• My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

  Derrick Bell

  Wife, Trying, Proud

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• Doesn't  the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

  Tablo

  Real, Black And White, Color

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Adventure

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• White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, White Man, Europe

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• I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Snow, Sculpture, Icicles

  Mary E. Pearson (2012). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox: Chapters 1-5”, p.17, Macmillan

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• As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people dont talk about race amongst themselves!

  Rainbow Rowell

  Race, People, I Realized

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• A lot of black-and-white films generally have a color version that will be used for TV.

  Noah Baumbach

  Black And White, Color, Tvs

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• I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

  Noah Baumbach

  Black And White, Contemporary, Subjects

  "Noah Baumbach on how Frances Ha helped him see New York City with new eyes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. May 16, 2013.

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• It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

  Noah Baumbach

  Black And White, Black, Impossible

  "'Frances Ha' Q & A: Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach on Collaborating, Shooting Black-and-White in NY (TRAILER)". Interview with Ryan Lattanzio, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.

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• Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.

  Amy Plum

  Black And White, World, Life Is

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• I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

  George Weinberg

  Proud, Tall

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