Top 1200 Snow White Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to maintain both our comfort and our positions in a racially inequitable society from which we benefit.

The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads

You look out on the driving range and it looks like snow, but it isn't, it's covered in golf balls.

I don't know if you've ever tried to run through waist-deep snow, but it's next to impossible.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

It's always illegitimate for white men to organize as white men.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it's not going to get better... people have to be made to feel uncomfortable, and especially white people, because we're comfortable. We still have no clue what being born white means.

I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

As the country has become more diverse, not just states like California and New York, but throughout the nation, it's no coincidence that we have seen a resurgence of white supremacy and violent extremism. And history's clear: voter suppression is rooted in white supremacy.

That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles - no money, no training, no skis, no snow.

New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.

I could never live with you; not 'cause I'm racist or nothing. It's just 'cause as a black man in America, I need to have someone I can come home and complain about white people to. And that just don't work with my white wife.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.

President Barack Obama read to a certain portion of white America as an unending attack on white Christian identity, centrality and cultural relevance. In their minds, he was seeking to end their right to bear arms and the right of conservatives to speak freely.

On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

If we follow the white man, we're going to drown with the white man.

There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead.

Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow.

I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again... The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.

I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

I read so much Harry Potter, that's, like, all I wanted to talk about. I watched stuff like 'Lizzie McGuire.' I watched things that were very mainstream but white, and I went to a predominately white school.

It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

When people nowadays say that Elvis was the first white guy to sound black, I have to shake my head; what can you do? At the time of 'That's My Desire' 1947 they were saying that I was the only white guy around who sounded black.

Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.

That is my job as an intellectual, as an extension of my vocation: to engage in a serious reckoning with the present manifestation of both white supremacy, white refusal to acknowledge culpability, and the attempts of black people to re-describe the harm and trauma we've endured, as well as to say afresh what it is that must be done if we are to be conscientious.

Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.

My goal is to get my name known in the Premier League. I want to put my footsteps in the snow.

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

Green grass breaks through snow, Artemis pleads for my help, I am so cool.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild.

You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.

The only way for white folks to reclaim the full arc of their humanity, the full trajectory of their ethical content, of their ethical identity, is to surrender the white innocence that prevents them from being fully mature.

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy.

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three.

I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

What do we have to do to make God love us?' I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. 'God loved the white people better. He must've. That's why he made them white.'