#white

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

#clearing #clouds #crest #enormous #had

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#got #house #i #invited #kennedy

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever. ↗

— Ally Sheedy

#black #everybody #fall #i #i think

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. ↗

— Antony Sher

#belong #constantly #courage #gay #groups

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world. ↗

— Bobby Short

#appreciated #black #did #even #i

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birmingham #broken #come #completely #cope

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions. ↗

— Montel Williams

#allowed #away #because #country #exemptions

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going." Catho Darlington in the book Catho Darlington--Lessons Learned in the Space Age ↗

— Sara Marie Hogg

#cool #elementary-school #hideouts #hula-hoops #middle-america

All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete. ↗

— Christian Lander

#houses #humor #white-people #home

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn’t deserve white, and I was sick of black. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#black #grey #pink #white #beauty