Quotes with white

Quotes 261 till 280 of 297.

  • Assata Shakur When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 80
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bill Moseley When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'
    Bill Moseley
    American film actor and musician (1951 - )
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  • Barry White When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Bill Cosby When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Ben Nelson When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Murray When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Bunker Roy Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Bert McCracken Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Burgess Owens White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it's there because of our ancestors - those who came to this country and did their very best. And every generation has gotten better at what we're good at.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
    On his eponymous defense to the Kings Gambit. A bust to the Kings Gambit (1960)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God paints in many colors; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Gibbons White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Nikki Giovanni White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
    Nikki Giovanni
    American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Barbara Block White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.
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  • Oscar Wilde With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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