White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black...

You’re a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don’t live there anymore, and I don’t approve of the brutal racial policies.

She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls… seem to like the idea of using colors.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

If you can place black where it suppose to be, you will see white and white is light.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

Es como saber que eres el centro, lo único que él ve, que solo te ve a ti. Y eso es tan tierno y excitante… es terrorífico, increíble. Es saber que sólo existe una persona que sólo te ve a ti. Y que cuando te toca, no existe nadie más para él.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

I’ve swam with great white sharks.

It’s a bird of some sort. It’s like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors.”The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it...

I always felt like Broadway was not for me – in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn’t believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose… Africa… but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race… in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many...

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.

Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this “separation” may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to...

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

I’d like to see more crossover between white and black music. That’s something I’ve been advocating for years.

I’m still Elliott Yamin. I’m still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

I didn’t write ‘Snow White’ for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

I know what’s good for me. I can’t play black or gray. I can’t be a villain or anything close to one. I have to play white.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

When I was writing ‘The White Tiger’ I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn’t have to do much research to find them.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

I’ve always been a tomboy. I’ve always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.

For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman’s body against the uncanny blue sky.

It’s funny because I want my teeth to be, like, neon ‘Real Housewives’ white, but mine have stopped taking to teeth whitening. When I talk to my dentist, I’m like, ‘They can be that white,’ and he’s like, ‘Veneers can be that white.’

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart

Basically, I’m in a kilt and a white shirt every day. So, you know, I don’t have a lot of scope, and I’m really picky about what I wear. Even if it’s weird, it’s very particular to me. And you can’t make a business out of what I would wear. We’d be out of business.

If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today’s world, that does not exist.

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

The admirals of his majesty’s fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.

We’re all Africans, everyone – black, white, yellow.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

I’m useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I’ll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a...

The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.

I’m a suspicious mulatto, which means I’m too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.