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«One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.»
Author: Anatol Rapoport
| About:
Chess,
Play
| Keywords:
blacks, champion, chess, chess piece, chess player, common interest, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«Silent till you see the whites of their eyes»
Author: Prince Charles of Prussia
| Keywords:
whites
«The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
| Keywords:
desperately, James, James Bond, licensed, paper tiger, reaffirm, reaffirmed, reaffirming, reaffirms, The Whites, triumphant, whites, white man, white paper
«When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.»
Author: Eudora Welty
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
associate, cream, divinity, divinity fudge, fudge, lark, larks, rushed, snowstorm, snowstorms, Snow White, sugar, The Larks, whites
«When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| About:
Unemployment
| Keywords:
depression, The Whites, unemployed, whites
«Racism as a form of skin worship, and as a sickness and a pathological anxiety for America, is so great, until the poor whites -- rather than fighting for jobs or education -- fight to remain pink and fight to remain white. And therefore they cannot see an alliance with people that they feel to be inherently inferior.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
alliance, form of worship, Great White, pathological, pink, racism, sickness, whites
«The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
Care of, cutting off, cut off, familiar, familiar spirit, Indians, killing, kill off, spirits, The Whites, To Kill a, whites
«We all felt on top of the world. It was a justification for the sacrifices which had been made by our people since the arrival of whites in this country in 1652.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
arrival, arrivals, justification, sacrifices, The Arrival, whites
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