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It never ceased to amaze me how white scholars could quibble, making simple things more complicated than they really were. What is more central in the Christian Bible than the exodus and Jesus stories and the prophetic call for justice for the poor?
- James H. Cone
ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.
- Oscar Wilde
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.
- Jack Kerouac
Media Matters hates anyone, black or white, who is independent and unafraid to speak the truth - because they are children of the lie. Their father is Satan.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the dawn of love to rise.
- Victor Hugo
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon
- Herman Melville
The mouth, opened to show the long teeth, was a dark room furnished with a few white chairs.
- Maya Angelou
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
To those who cite the disreputable sorts of pleasure one may fairly reply that these are not really pleasant. For we ought not, because they are pleasant to the wrongly disposed, to think they are generally pleasant, or to any but these; just as things that are wholesome or sweet or bitter to the sick, are not so to all, and as things are not really white that seem so to those suffering from opthalmia.
- Aristotle
The American white man has so thoroughly brainwashed the black man to see himself as only a domestic "civil rights" problem that it will probably take longer than I live before the Negro sees that the struggle of the American black man is international.
- Malcolm X
Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn't last long in nature. They're too conspicuous.
- Margaret Atwood