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Austin Scarlett Fashion Designer
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"When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes"

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Andre Benjamin Musician, Actor
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"Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down."

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X. J. Kennedy Poet, Author
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"Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung."

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William Blake Poet, Painter
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"The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government ."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
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"Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white."

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William Julius Wilson Sociologist, Author
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"Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar."

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"Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group."

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Willie Parker Football Player
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"I just want to remind people that the task of those who support reproductive rights and reproductive justice didn't change based on who is in the White House. We have leadership that is not supportive of what we're trying to do, but the demand for justice shouldn't be modulated."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
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"I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House."

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