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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."

Would Be White Want Something
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Patty Murray Politician
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"If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress."

House White Balance
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Barbara Smith Activist, Writer
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"Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed."

People White Color
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive"

White Feminist Ease
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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens."

House White United States
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Dennis Miller Comedian
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"The White House again refused to turn over discussions Vice President Cheney had with Enron officials over energy policy. Cheney said if he had to disclose every time some business donated a ton of money then came in to write its own policy to govern itself, he wouldn't get any work done."

Writing House White
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Military Leader, Politician
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"Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down."

Men Teacher White
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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"The White House says they will release the Osama bin Laden death photo. Better yet, they're doing it on a set of limited edition commemorative plates."

House White Osama Bin Laden
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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
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"I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated."

White Wings Dancer
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"My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion."

Hands White Racism
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness."

White Flower Purple
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Woody Guthrie Singer-Songwriter
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"I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people."

People White Oklahoma
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Wyndham Lewis Artist and Writer
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"The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to."

Names Science White
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?"

Men Together White
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"I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white board must become something."

Eye White Boards
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life."

Long Past White
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