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"Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out."
"As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created."
"You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't."
"Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved."
"It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity."
"I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery."
"Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it."
"For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!"
"I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time."
"The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination."
"At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation."
"It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!""
"Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!"
"These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored."
"Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this."
"Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite."
"Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything."
"The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!"
"Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind."
"Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: 'Éowyn Éomund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn & Éowyn"
