E B White Quotes

E B White Quote of the day

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

White people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

I am the colour red, in a world of black and white and if you value your ability to breathe... Don't get too close.

Black people know what white people mean when they say “law and order”.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black? All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture.

There is only one race, the human race.

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.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

We will have no mercy for white people regarding the land, they cannot own our soil.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

I am sure in some years from now you will see new posters with just white space and four lines in Garamond.

There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin.

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

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.