"Snow-white moslem head-dress around a dead black face! Beautiful were your sand-papering words against our skins!"
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"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."
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"This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again."
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"I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir"
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"No one has to come see my shows who doesn't like me talking about white Christians. They are free not buy a ticket. They're free to leave at any time. So I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Therefore I feel free to cross the line."
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"Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up."
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"If all fooles wore white Caps, wee should seeme a flock of geese."
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"There's no doctor in a white coat that's going to save you, or a system or a pill - it's always going to be you and the choices that you make."
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"Being a politician makes your hair turn white."
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"Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy."
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"This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God."
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"I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores."
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"It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white."
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"The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn."
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"As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it."
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"I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening."
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"the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated."
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"I always feel that the best roles are written for white guys."
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"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
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"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female."
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