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I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.


Kathryn Stockett


#been #black #discussed #find #forced

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though this was the 70s and the segregation laws had changed, the 'rules' had not.


Kathryn Stockett


#even #fair #get #grocery #grocery store

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.


Joss Stone


#aretha franklin #franklin #her #i #i wish

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.


J. Michael Straczynski


#getting #head #heat #i #i can

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.


Erich von Stroheim


#crowds #faces #first #foolish #i

If you write something the White House doesn't like, they take you in and say, 'If you ever write something like you did today, nobody from the White House will ever talk to you again,'


Ron Suskind


#did #ever #house #like #nobody

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.


Helen Suzman


#am #any #country #entirely #future

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.


Stuart Symington


#assistant #been #choose #could #died

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.


Ida B. Wells


#avails #become #character #city #dares

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.


Antonio Tabucchi


#clean #completely #doubts #given #having