Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
I've lived my whole life exactly the way I've wanted to. Being gay, being white, being male, it doesn't matter to me. They're all things I'm born with.
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.
Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.
I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.
L'art Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
When the sun shines, there seems to be much more dust in the air. Dirt can only be seen and properly removed by flooding it with white light
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
