Top 1200 White Noise Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn't that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

I have to have my Beats Studio3 noise-canceling headphones with me on long flights.

Lots of times when you watch anime, the characters all have white skin - all the characters in fantasy stories all have white skin, which I never liked.

Stop focusing on the noise and the expectations of others, and focus on what makes you happy.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.

It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

When you're trying to bust through the noise on social media, you do have to be overt and loud.

It's because films like 'Selma' are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don't have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, 'Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?'

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than not, people will assume that the person is white. That assumption indicates an uncomfortable truth: in our society, whiteness determines humanity.

'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The Huxtables had white friends.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.

I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for to believe the white man any more.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Lady, if you laugh and you don't make a noise, you're a shaker, and it's freaking me out.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.

I'd pick a young white guy over an old white guy for president anytime because the younger guy is more likely to have been influenced by the great social changes of the '60s and '70s.

I didnt grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, Ive never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

I'm half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I'm white, but all the road men think because I'm mixed race that I can't be bad because I'm light skin. It's crazy.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Boomf is the noise a marshmallow makes when it falls through your letterbox.

Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

What is it to be white? It does mean something to be Norwegian. It means something to be Polish or German or Spanish. But 'white' is simply a catchall for 'light-skinned person.' It doesn't really mean anything.

Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I answered, "Doctor, I have more education than most white people."

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.

If the fans are making a noise and reacting, then you're doing a good job.