Quotes of: White-lies Keyword

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

James Weldon Johnson

My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.

Erin O'Connor

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

Elizabeth Strout

I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to do it right.

Common

Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.

Ian Mckellen

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

Diplo

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

Desiree Rogers

I like Columbus, Ohio, because it's Pleasantville for real. They have the nicest white people I have ever met, and I mean that!

Bobby Lee

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

Gabrielle Union

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

Henry Bessemer

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

Hal Holbrook

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

Jeffrey Sachs

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

Jack Spicer

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'

Dick Gregory

I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

Jonathan Dimbleby

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

Janine di Giovanni

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Jupiter Hammon

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Janis Joplin

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

Jesse Jackson

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

James Joyce

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

John F. Kennedy