The so-called white races are really pinko-grey.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  A Passage to India, ch.7.

and Ireally hopeno white person ever has causetowrite about me because they never understand Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
  Black Judgement,'Nikki^Rosa'.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
Conversation with  James Baldwin, London, 4 Nov. Collected in  A Dialogue (1973).

A white face goes with a white mind.Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind.Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.

-Giovanni,Nikki in full Yolande CorneliaGiovanni,Jr
Conversation with  James Baldwin, London, 4 Nov. Collected in  A Dialogue (1973).

The world is not black and white. More like black and grey.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  Quoted in'Sayings of theYear', the Observer, Dec.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.2.

You are whiteö yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That's American.

-Hughes, (James Mercer) Langston
  'Theme for English B'.

We donot deridethe fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

-Jordan,June
  'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight, With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white.

-Keats,John
  'I Stood Tip-Toe upon a Little Hill', l.57^8.

No white man ever had the blues.

-Leadbelly pseudonym of  Huddie William Ledbetter
Quoted in  Joachim Berendt  The Jazz Book (1984).

Asyougrowolder, you'll seewhitemen cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget itöwheneverawhitemandoesthattoa black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

-Lee, (Nelle) Harper
   Atticus Finch. To Kill  A Mockingbird, pt.2, ch.23.

When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it ishis chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.

-Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler
  The Grass Is Singing, ch.8.

The rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweetöand breaks the heart.

-Grieve
  Stony Limits and other poems,'The Little White Rose'.

   A coloured man can tell, in five seconds dead, whether a

-MacInnes, Colin

During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideals of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hopeto live for, and toseerealized.But My Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

-Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
  Speech in court, 20  Apr, when charged under the Suppression of Communism  Act and facing the death penalty.

   Every man who comes to England is entitled to the protection of the English law, whatever oppression he may heretofore have suffered, and whatever may be the colour of his skin, whether it is black or whether it is white.

-Mansfield,William Murray, 1st Earl
   Judgement on the Somersett slavery case, May.

   I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang.It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

-Mitford, Nancy Freeman
  The Pursuit of Love, ch.9.

What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combineö This would I tell you, son of mine.

-Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska
  We Are Going,'Son of Mine'.

Theactionoftheplay takesplace onanisland intheWest Indies as not yet self-determined by White Mariners. The form of native government is, for the time being, an Empire.

-O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone
  The Emperor Jones, scene direction.

Men, you are all marksmenödon't one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes.

-Putnam, Israel
  Order before the Battle of Bunker Hill. Quoted in R Frothingham History of the Siege of Boston (1873), ch.5.