Forests of middle-aged men in dark suits†all slightly redfaced from eating and drinking too much†a nightmare of elderly white males.

-Abbott, DianeJulie
  Of the House of Commons. In the NewYork Times, 3  Jun.

Candida me docuit nigras odisse puellas. Odero si potero. Si non, invitus amabo. A white girl instructed me to hate black girls. I shall hate them if I can. If not, I shall love themöagainst my will.

-Anonymous
c.1c  AD  Graffito found in Pompeii. In Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum I V,1520.

Now the great winds shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'The Forsaken Merman', l.4^7.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

-Asquith, Margot
Of Lady Desborough. Quoted in The Listener,11  Jun1953.

At the root of the American Negro problem is the necessity of the American white man to find a way of living with the Negro in order to be able to live with himself.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
  'Stranger in a Village', in Harper's, Oct.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree-tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas', in the film Holiday Inn.

   Come now, and let us reason together, saith the L: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah1:18.

And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell as his feet as dead.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:13^17.

A great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 7:9.

These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and servehimdayand night inhistemple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe awayall tears from their eyes.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 7:14^17.

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.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Innocence,'The Little Black Boy'.

   Und der Haifisch, der hat Z a« hne Und die tr a« gt er im Gesicht Und Macheath, der hat ein Messer Doch das Messer sieht man nicht. Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear, And he shows them pearly white. Just a jack-knife has Macheath, dear, And he keeps it out of sight.

-Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich
  Die Dreigroschenoper ('The Threepenny Opera'), prologue (translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett,1970).

If Michaelangelowerea heterosexual, theSistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

-Brown, Rita Mae
  In the NewYork Times,15 May.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white,öwe call it black.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Bishop Blougram's  Apology'.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.10, l.1235^7.

And finds, with keen discriminating sight, Black's not so black;önor white so very white.

-Canning, George
  'New Morality', l.199^200.

You could be a great musician, an innovative and important artist, but nobodycared if youdidn't makethe white people who were in control some money.

-Davis, Miles Dewey, III
  Autobiography, ch.10.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

-Washington Bailey
  'The Destiny of Colored  Americans' in The North Star, 16 Nov.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.5,'What the Thunder Said'.

Aux colonies, l'infrastructure e¤  conomique est e¤  galement une superstructure. La cause est conse¤  quence: on est riche parce que blanc, on est blanc parce que riche. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar
Les Damne¤  s de la terre ( The Wretched of the Earth, translated by Constance Farrington,1965), ch.1,'Concerning Violence'.