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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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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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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." »Oscar Levant
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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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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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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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"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." »Andy Warhol
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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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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom." »Menander
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"A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb
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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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"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake." »Margot Asquith
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"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." »Danish proverb
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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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"There will be no whitewash in the white House. (On Watergate investigation)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The white House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman
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"Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face." »Clare Booth Luce
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley
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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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"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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"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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"Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." »Austin O'Malley
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." »Lucille Ball
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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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