White Quotes

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Barack Obama

Joyce Kilmer

John Masefield

Warren G. Harding

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Bram Stoker

Ernest Thompson Seton

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse

Anzia Yezierska

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

James Weldon Johnson

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

Wassily Kandinsky

For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

She [Lady Desborough] tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

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

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

William Manchester

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

James Weldon Johnson

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Lying in the hospital, thinking of all those women going for cancer checkups because of me, I'd come to recognize more clearly the power of the woman in the White House. Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

Isabelle Eberhardt

My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
And a grey mist on the sea's face, and a grey dawn breaking.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Carter G. Woodson

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

William Morris Hunt