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"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy."
"I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history"
"The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers."
"I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter"
"The white horse and the black one wheeled like lovers at a harvest dance, the riders throwing steel in place of kisses."
"I felt that let's understand that all these people are just human, even the advisors in the White House, they're just real people trying to make real decisions and they make mistakes like anybody else does under pressure. If you can get that with these great performances then you claim it on that level as well."
"Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black."
"Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass."
"I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray."
"Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order."
"But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone."
"The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on."
"People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones."
"I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white."
"I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover"
"Any color is more distinctly seen when opposed to its contrary: thus, black on white, blear near yellow, green near red, and so on."
"If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it"
"To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast."
"I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries."
"The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good."
