Quotes with white-knuckling

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  • Arvo Part I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Huey Newton I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Susan Sontag I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Bryan White I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Bryan White I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John F. Kennedy I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • James Baldwin I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Mae West I used to be snow white, but I drifted.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Martin Luther King I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I'm a sucker for turquoise sea, white beaches and palm trees. I've been to the tropics every year since I could afford it. It's the perfect place to unwind. I can chill out, read, do a bit of yoga.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Bryan White I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Ben Foster I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Bell Hooks I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • B. B. King I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barry White I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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