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White Quotes

They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem’s room.

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 29. How Scout describe Boo Radley when she meets him for the first time. His overall paleness speaks of all the time he has spent indoors, he is never seen outside his house until the end of the story.

I knowed he was white inside.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 40. Huck on Jim. Though it sounds racist – Huck is an uneducated product of the old south – this is acually a compliment about his friend. White people were seen by many of their race as inherently good and trustworthy. And black people were the opposite, those same people believed.

I think being brown and in a very white privileged area, it just didn’t work. I remember being about five years old and I was playing with some friends and a little boy went, ‘Oh you’re a P**i!’

– Malin Andersson

Cosmopolitan interview. Love Island star said she was also called “Bounty bar” and “half-caste” while growing up in unnamed white privileged village.

For five straight minutes a white officer on our police department pressed his knee into the neck of a black man who was handcuffed, who was no threat and was articulating very clearly how he was impacted, how his physical health was being damaged and how he couldn’t breathe.

– Jacob Frey

Minneapolis Mayor on death of unarmed black man George Floyd at hands of police officer.

I’m aiming to become the white Oprah.

– Janice Dickinson

Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.

– Joe Biden

To group of mostly Asian and Hispanic voters.

I have always identified with Joan Didion’s depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading ‘Play It As It Lays,’ ‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’ and ‘The White Album.’

– Henry Rollins

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

– Georg Trakl

Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

– Hedy Lamarr

I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

– Heath Ledger

At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it’s white on white.

– Greg MacGillivray

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

– Henry Bessemer

The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.

– Howard Staunton

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

– Harry Shearer

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.

– Greg Rutherford

Even if it’s a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

– Gary Owen

Who wants those gleaming white cosmetically enhanced American teeth?

– Georgia Jagger

I am not interested in splitting the white vote.

– Harold Washington

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches – white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

– Helen Fielding

I think I sound like Barry White.

– Gloria Gaynor

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.

– Isoroku Yamamoto

Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

– Jonathan Kozol

Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

– John McEnroe

The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

– John Fleming

To be honest, I just want to go somewhere where I can wear a white Speedo.

– Johnny Weir

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

– James E. Faust

I’ve always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that’s getting less and less white.

– Jose Antonio Vargas

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

– Jimmie Johnson

I don’t have Gandalf the White’s certainty about everything.

– Ian Mckellen

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn’t have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It’s basically militant.

– Joni Mitchell

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