Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
If someone were to come from another planet and see the world through movies, they'd think that the world was populated by white men in their 30s who shoot a lot.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.
[from trailer] Branch Rickey: Jackie Robinson. A black man in white baseball.
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
White magic or black, it doesn’t make a difference. Natural and artificial? Obsolete distinctions
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, 'Ours.'
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.