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"And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive."
"Louisiana, as ceded by France to the United States, is made a part of the United States; its white inhabitants shall be citizens, and stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations."
"Sometimes I look at it [Valley of Violence] and go, "How did we do that?" But it's a credit to Ethan [Hawke], he had done White Fang, so Ethan is like, "Oh God, that's right.""
"I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought."
"One of the most important things is to figure out what your look is — I don't wear this black suit-white shirt combination all the time to try and be iconic — but because I'm most comfortable in this. Cary Grant never turned up in a pink jacket and hot pants and I don't feel the need to experiment when I know I like dressing this way."
"You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House."
"When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me."
"I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males."
"I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness."
"I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality."
"The reason our country looks the way it does is through social engineering that distinctly benefits suburban communities, exurban communities, and often white residents. And we are socially engineered in such a way as to, often unconsciously and unintentionally, but sometimes intentionally, perpetuate this divisive inequality."
"We don't live in a world that's black and white."
"There are only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them."
"In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English novels and poetry. It was that spur, that desire, that pushed me to set aside love and marriage in my early twenties."
"If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller."
"I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight."
"A Mexican guy named Sam pushes Gary Frankel next to Isabel. "This guy can break your arm with one snap, asshole. Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says. Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work."
"Gary, who's wearing a coral shirt and white pants, growls to look tough. It doesn't work."
"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice."
"It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music."
