#whit

Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either. ↗

— Jesse Owens

#either #hands #hitler #house #i

A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cast #centered #film #predominantly #pressure

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#acting #against #also #audience #back

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #days #embarrassment #feminism #herself

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black #think #were #white #you

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#obama #president #president obama #red #through

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#census #females #first #free #head

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#art #artist #artistic #black #black and white

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told. ↗

— Bennie Thompson

#biggest #ever #go #lie #mississippi

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#against #along #back #creeping #far