You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe on the Little Piney. His presence here is†an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.

-Red Cloud original name Mahpiua Luta
  Speech before war council at Fort Laramie,Wyoming.

I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black† Being black iswarm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  Voyage in the Dark, ch.1.

Keen as are the arrows Of that silver sphere, Whose intense lamp narrows In the white dawn clear Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'To a Skylark', stanza 5.

Let Eli rejoice with Leuconöhe is an honest fellow, which is a rarity. For I have seen theWhite Raven and Thomas Hall of Willingham andam myselfa greatercuriosity thanboth. Let Jemuel rejoice with Charadrius, who is from the and the sight of him isgood for the jaundice. For I look up to heaven which is my prospect to escape envy by surmounting it.

-Smart, Christopher
HEIGHT1758^63  JubilateAgno, fragmentB, stanzas 25^6 (first published 1939). Both the white raven andThomas Hall, a giant of four feet at the age of three, were curiosities exhibited in the1740s.

The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneöits ideologies and inventionsöwhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

-Sontag, Susan
  In Partisan Review,Winter.

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, becausethey had once belonged somewhere.That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere because they think of everybody else as native.

-Stein, Gertrude
  Everybody's Autobiography, ch.1.

Life is not all Beer and Skittles. The inherent tragedy of things works itself out from white to black and blacker, and the poor things of a day look ruefully on. Does it shake my cast-iron faith? I cannot say it does. I believe in an ultimate decency of things: ay, and if I woke in hell, should still believe it!

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Letter to Sidney Colvin, 23 Aug.

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries,'She is near, she is near;' And the white rose weeps,'She is late;' The larkspur listens,'I hear, I hear;' And the lily whispers,'I wait.' She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airya tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat; Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.22, stanzas10^11, l. 908^23.

   The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It is between two horrible shades of grey.

-Thorneycroft, Lord (George Edward) Peter
  In the SundayTelegraph,11 Feb.

The Red Cow was very respectable, shealways behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or whiteöthere was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. People were good or they were badöthere was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or souröthere were never any moderately nice ones.

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  Mary Poppins, ch.5.

Well, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be something out o' kilter. I tink dat 'twixt de niggers of de Soufandde womenat de Norf allatalkin''bout rights, de white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

-Truth, Sojourner ne¤  e Isabella
  Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio. Quoted in Narrative of SojournerTruth (1875), pt.2,'Book of Life'.

La Ame¤  rica Latina debe lo que es al europeo blanco y no va a renegar de e¤  l†Sin embargo, aceptamos los ideales superiores del blanco, pero no su arrogancia. Latin America owes its being to the European, and should not deny it†but, while accepting the white man's superior ideals, we do not accept his arrogance.

-Vasconcelos,Jose¤
  La raza co¤  smica (translated asThe Cosmic Race,1979), pt.1, ch.2.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  'Nuclear Madness:WhatYou Can Do', in Black Scholar, Spring.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else.But the fact is, you got to give 'em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

-Walker, Alice Malsenior
  Pa.The Color Purple.

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

-Williams,William Carlos
  Spring and All,'The RedWheelbarrow'.

We are redefining and restating our socialism in terms of thescientific revolution† The Britain that will be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Labour Party Conference,1Oct. His phrase has since been memorably rendered as 'the white heat of the technological revolution'.