I was a goth girl in high school. Perhaps the powdered white face and the black lipstick were not the most attractive. I felt fabulous at the time but looking back, uh, probably not the best idea.
Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.
My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorites are chicken, rice, assorted veggies, egg white omelets, turkey sandwiches and protein shakes.
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
When you have heart disease, you start to be tired of everything. It's like getting older. You become more white, and after that, grey. You have no feeling for anything.
There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)
No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves.
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.
I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.
A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.
So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?
I was the only white kid in my neighborhood for most of my youth even in high school, so reverse racism was just as apparent as racism.
