Top 35 Passing For White Quotes

#1. I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Christina Aguilera

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#2. We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.

Meriwether Lewis

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#3. They stood high on top of the hill overlooking the glen, the water rushing by, the sheep grazing on the green grass across the burn, and white clouds passing overhead against the blue sky.
He still had hold of her arm, but then he released her, cupped her face with both hands, and kissed her.

Terry Spear

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#4. I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?

Ryan Giggs

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#5. One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Reid Scott

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#6. Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

Halsey

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#7. I once caught a bid, I never hit skid,
Never date a girl if the girl got a kid.
Nahhh ... papa's got a brand new bag
And I never hit skinz once they sag.

Grand Puba

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#8. In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

Juan Williams

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#9. Beware, beware of those who care,' as some wise person said. Not that I'm suggesting there is anything wrong with caring. But as Granny Maud used to say, 'Fine words butter no parsnips,' and she might have added, 'Caring should be felt and not heard.

Salley Vickers

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#10. It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

Maureen Dowd

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#11. Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.

Donna White

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#12. I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.

Lucas Grabeel

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#13. Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

Laurie Anderson

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#14. Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore White

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#15. The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either.

Jim White

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#16. I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society.

John Howard Griffin

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#17. Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it's a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

Audrey Niffenegger

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#18. What are you doing out there?" Lily hissed.
"Would you believe me if I said I was just passing by?"
She groaned. "You are a terrible liar, Calder White.

Anne Greenwood Brown

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#19. What's the legacy of President Obama? I think this is just another, another example of passing the buck. It never stops at the White House.

Eric Bolling

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#20. It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

James Weldon Johnson

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#21. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.

Brian D'Ambrosio

Passing For White Quotes #124302
#22. I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

Jack White

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#23. Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

John Lewis

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#24. I look up at the sky.
I see a cloud passing just under the sun.
The top is all electric white.
I remind myself.
Don't give up, I think. Not just yet.

Matthew Quick

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#25. Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

Henry Kirke White

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#26. All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

Ellen G. White

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#27. We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Peter Abrahams

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#28. Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Miguel De Unamuno

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#29. I can't see you in Adehya. It's like right before my gran died. I saw her passing through this big wall of white light, and then. . .nothing." - Patrick

Lowvee Cole

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#30. I lay back on my bunk and thought about people I love, and how lucky I was to be white and not poor and just passing briefly through a system which is a permanent hell for so many.

Howard Zinn

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#31. building. She could almost see Jesse standing there as he had that first day, white hat like a halo. How sure she'd been that he was a passing fancy, soon to be forgotten.

Angelina Vance

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#32. When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.

Judy Blume

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#33. Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Connie Stevens

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#34. Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#35. The elephants are dancing on the graves of squeeling mice.

Cream

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