Quotes with white-trash

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  • Barbara Smith A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • E. B. White A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • E. B. White A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • E. B. White A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ben Stein After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Norman Mailer America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Bill Shuster America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • A. M. Klein And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,
    When reading in these treatises some weird
    Miracle, I turned a leaf and found
    A white hair fallen from my father's beard.
    Heirloom (1982)
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  • John Lennon And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Bush And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ezra Pound As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Barry White As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Billy Corgan As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Antony Sher As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
    Antony Sher
    British actor (1949 - )
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  • Bill de Blasio As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • August Wilson As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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