Quotes of: Black-or-white Keyword

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Jean Genet

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society...

John Ridley

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with...

Tim Wise

Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.

Wayne Rooney

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and ho...

Herb Ritts

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

Keegan-Michael Key

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

Richard Rogers

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Nikki Giovanni

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

Chief Joseph

Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.

Ice Cube

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Charles Barkley

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

Gil Scott-Heron

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

Dave Chappelle

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

H. P. Lovecraft

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

Maya Angelou

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Aretha Franklin

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

Daryl Hall

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Richard M. Nixon

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

Muhammad Ali

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

Aretha Franklin

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Andrew Young