Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days. – Michael Leunig
Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn’t white is very old fashioned. – Malorie Blackman
I don’t get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini. – Martin Freeman
I always wear the same thing: a tight white shirt – I have about 50 – and tight black trousers. – Marie Helvin
The original version of ‘The White Mountains’ was probably just about worth publishing. – John Christopher
They don’t always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that! How dare they do ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and not have dwarfs! – Kenny Baker
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White. – Karen Duffy
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me. – Maajid Nawaz
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. – Malcolm X
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika. – Jim Himes
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves – Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there. – Jonathan Raban
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown. – JoJo
All my stories were usually titled, ‘White House Says,’ ‘President Bush Wants,’ and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted. – Jeff Gannon
If Bush does make it to the White House, he and Laura should have Ken Starr over for dinner. – Molly Ivins
I’ve interviewed the president in the White House. I’d interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors. – Jane Clayson
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don’t think a whole lot had changed from the ’60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books – but not in the kitchens of white homes. – Kathryn Stockett
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me. – Larry Bird
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. – Milton Berle
What is it to be white? It does mean something to be Norwegian. It means something to be Polish or German or Spanish. But ‘white’ is simply a catchall for ‘light-skinned person.’ It doesn’t really mean anything. – Keith Ellison
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world – especially the world of downtown – is predominantly white. – Karan Mahajan
I’m a suspicious mulatto, which means I’m too black to be white and too white to be doing it right. – Lemon Andersen
Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It’s a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret. – Jeanne Marie Laskas
