Mr Whitefolks Quotes

#1. When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.

Cicely Tyson

#2. The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

Rodney Stark

#3. If we're all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches?

Ken Follett

#4. If one was dying, it had to be done in style if the dying took place in whitefolks' part of town. On

Maya Angelou

#5. Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

Alice Walker

#6. I started to say that couldn't happen, that the people I knew wouldn't turn on their friends and neighbors because of an accident of birth. But in the end, I didn't say that, because I wondered if it was the truth.

Charlaine Harris

#7. I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

Henry Zebrowski

#8. I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

Nick Cave

#9. Well, you're gonna have to put your big girl panties on and deal with it!

Dana Perino

#10. If I was to get money, that's the first thing you would get: a '96 Impala.

Meek Mill

#11. Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

Ilchi Lee

#12. There now. Just look at what your grandpa did to that poor old nigger." "Yes," I said. "Now he can spend day after day marching in parades. If it hadn't been for my grandfather, he'd have to work like whitefolks.

William Faulkner

#13. Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

R.D. Laing

#14. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks

Toni Morrison

#15. Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

John Cage

#16. Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life ... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#17. It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now.

Milton Berle

#18. [Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God.

Billy Graham

#19. Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu