#whit

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#black or white #him #hit #home #home runs

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#blood #cells #chronic #i #leukemia

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House. ↗

— Ralph Abernathy

#damn #did #going #house #into

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#black #come #his #joseph #kings

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#attention #budget #down #here #house

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#good #good life #life #live #people

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#average #equal #i #i think #identification

I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cake #chicago #chocolate #chocolate cake #dessert

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village. ↗

— David Amram

#black #black and white #did #gorgeous #greenwich