There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
We are not what we might be; what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.
I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House.
If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.
At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.
I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.
