White Quotes - Page 15

• We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

  Jonathan Chait

  Party, Identity Politics, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

  Frank Zappa

  House, President, Imagine

  Source: afka.net

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• There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

  John Henrik Clarke

  Home, Egypt, Pyramids

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

  Robert Bly

  America, Community, Trouble

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Stupid, People, Black

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.

  Michelle Obama

  Dad, Holiday, Past

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• This year's [2016] White House holiday theme is "The Gift of the Holidays," and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation: from our incredible military families, to the life-changing impact of a great education.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Life Changing, Holiday

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Expression, Space, Pages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was not "shoe." That's a misuse of the term "shoe," which is derived from "white shoe."

  Kevin Sessums

  Shoes, Misuse, Term

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.

  Kevin Sessums

  School, Yale, Class

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

  Carrie Fisher

  Texas, Grandparent, Trash

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Philosophical, Biblical, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Doubt, Today

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'

  Debbie Reynolds

  Years, Dresses, Subway

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

  John Guare

  Men, Color, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the bohemians, the artists - all of those people were crammed into densely populated neighborhoods and tenements. And as people climbed up the economic ladder they moved out, which really accelerated with the "white flight" phenomenon in the '60s and '70s.

  Cleve Jones

  Artist, Cities, People

  "Legendary LGBT Activist Wants You to Get Up and Fight". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their country. They introduced politics into sport." And Don [Bradman] was a very shrewd old bloke, and he looked at me for about thirty seconds and then he said, "Bob, I've got no answer to that." And that was it.

  Bob Hawke

  Sports, Country, Government

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

  Bob Hawke

  Black And White, Mugabe, Mets

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

  Bob Hawke

  Australia, Yew, Way

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of it.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Men, White Man

  Source: wrvo.org

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• By the way, Santa just is white.

  Megyn Kelly

  Santa, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, June, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.

  Malcolm X

  Atheist, Book, Thinking

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

  Malcolm X

  Race, Deeds, Doomed

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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