#whit

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#forever #holds #need #only #people

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#country #generally #his #johnson #men

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids. ↗

— Joe Baca

#american families #families #house #jobs #kids

Tell me again about the girl whose hands have no color. Whose hands are completely white. This time make them damned, or untouched, or have her open a red umbrella or point at some maple leaves and damned near cry. Those hands. As freakish goes, I wish I had a tail. Maybe then you’d know how much I like you. It shakes me through, damn through. It shakes me. When she carries a peacock feather. When she touches her neck or thighs. You’re a person. It’s not so bad. You have hands. You are a person with hands to hold things. Things you like. Tremendous things. Tell me what you will hold today. I know there is room for everything. There is no need to be ceremonious. Tell what gets let go. ↗

— Rebecca Wadlinger

#beauty #everybody-has-hands-almost #girl #grasp #hands

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls! ↗

— Boris Becker

#blonde #club #come #corner #go

And I can’t help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We can hear others, and we can travel to them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system like so many leaves of grass — but the game makes me wonder whether we can really ever fully become one another. ↗

— John Green

#beauty

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#ago #knew #much #nobody #sharks

On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#disingenuous #dress #even #full-on #had

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#brutal #feels #idea #like #middle-class

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. ↗

— Joe Biden

#balance of power #crisis #deal #economic #economic future