Whiteskinned Quotes

#1. She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.

Junot Diaz

#2. You don't want to be here... neither and there... what you are going to see here is the truth after so much books, series, movies... the truth is going to have feet, legs... foot... and even a body and arms and head....

Deyth Banger

#3. Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

Sharon Creech

#4. There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.

Phil Rizzuto

#5. You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

Marianne Williamson

#6. You want to be there for emotional support, yet everything you say or do ends up irritating the mother-to-be while she is in labor.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith

#8. Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

Dominique De Villepin

#9. Just one punch. In the eyeball. With a spoon.

Sara Wolf

#10. I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I played golf, and I started getting invited to charity golf events, and I just fell in love with the game ten-fold, and at a lot of these events, there were athletes.

Brian Baumgartner

#11. He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

Rumi

#12. What matters most is for the school, the district, and the state to be able to say that more students have reached "proficiency." This sort of fraud ignores the students' interests while promoting the interests of adults who take credit for nonexistent improvements.

Diane Ravitch

#13. J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who "had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent.

Michael Hofmann