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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the white House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the white House tells us." »Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
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"My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. white man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence." »malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x
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"Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo
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"If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull
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"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the white Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"I used to be Snow white -- but I drifted." »Mae West
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"If everything isn't black and white, I say, “Why the hell not?" »John Wayne
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"Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown." »Jane Austen, Emma
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom." »Menander
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"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." »Danish proverb
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"There will be no whitewash in the white House. (On Watergate investigation)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Red is grey and yellow white
We decide which is right
and which is an illusion." »Moody Blues, "Tuesday Afternoon"
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"Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face." »Clare Booth Luce
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"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake." »Margot Asquith
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"The white House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman
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"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." »Austin O'Malley
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"There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see." »Nat Burton
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"You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents." »Australian Aboriginal Elder
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"I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The white House was behind us now." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I have no idea what white House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent." »Richard Darman
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"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." »e e cummings
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"It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." »Deng Xiaoping
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"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark." »Dick Gregory
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