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I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
Dick Gephardt
Life
Time
White
White House
Think
President
Carried
Life Experiences
Had
Most
House
American
Same
Experiences
Ordinary
Who
It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.
Dick Gregory
Work
You
Law
Dance
Black
White
Could
Talk
Sing
Unwritten
Comics
Permitted
Were
Stand
Nightclubs
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
Dick Gregory
Day
Rights
Thought
Black
White
Rights Movement
Would
Folks
Civil
See
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
More
Never
Mississippi
Than
Frightened
Movement
When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.
Dick Gregory
Women
White
Airport
Athlete
See
Something
Through
Wrong
Feet
Like
Go
Exist
Walking
White Women
I was nobody; I showed up to sparring in a white wife beater and Hawaiian shorts. I had plimsolls; I didn't have boxing shoes. It just shows you don't need to have fancy equipment or experience: you're either a good fighter, or you're not.
Dillian Whyte
Good
You
Experience
Wife
Shoes
White
Fighter
Hawaiian
Had
Nobody
Boxing
Equipment
Up
Just
Either
Fancy
Shorts
Sparring
Shows
Need
I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the government, in the White House, and at the State Department.
Dina Powell
Government
You
Legal
College
Seen
Important
White
White House
Last-Minute
State
State Department
Minute
Almost
Bailey
Come
House
Said
How
Were
Years
Senate
Department
Senator
Decisions
Turned
Worked
Kay
Why
Last
I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing!
Dominique Moceanu
Women
People
World
Win
First
Country
White
Teammates
Able
Podium
Gymnastics
Life-Changing
Put
Red
How
How Many People
Get
Blue
Represent
Gold
Gold Medal
Being
Team
Standing
Many
Medal
More often than not, we think of ourselves as black, white, Asian, or Hispanic pretty much in this country, but the real America is much more than that.
Don Lemon
Black
Country
White
Think
Ourselves
Pretty
More
Real
Hispanic
Than
America
Often
Asian
Much
Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican.
Don Lemon
Gay
Women
People
Matter
Black
White
Demographic
Governing
Whether
Republican
Straight
Means
White Women
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom.
Donald Justice
Man
Light
White
Would
Could
Diving
Bottom
He
Disappear
Like
Make
Him
Sheets
Bed
His
Certain
Awake
Keep
Sleep
Work continuously to trim the White House staff from your first day to your last. All the pressures are to the contrary.
Donald Rumsfeld
Work
Day
First
White
White House
Pressures
Trim
House
Continuously
Contrary
Staff
Your
Last
When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.
Donna Brazile
Best
Law
Real Estate
Nation
White
Too
Our
Though
Out
Systems
Blacks
Laws
Segregated
Segregation
Had
Real
Were
South
Up
North
Estate
Quota
Custom
Communities
Many
Growing
Keep
Growing Up
Largely
Universities
I think with 'Hamilton,' Lin-Manuel has really blown up the whole casting idea. It's miraculous. You look at '1776,' it's a bunch of old white guys and old white chicks. You look at 'Hamilton,' and it's just the faces of America.
Donna Lynne Champlin
You
Old
White
Think
Miraculous
Faces
Guys
Casting
Idea
Look
Hamilton
Up
Chicks
Bunch
America
Blown
Just
Really
Whole
You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!
Donny Osmond
Today
Music
You
Wind
Fire
Band
White
Back
Everything
Earth
Draw
Those
Kind
See
Parliament
Stuff
Look
Obviously
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Always
Go
Hear
Up
Wonder
Artists
Ohio
Influenced
Influences
Turn
Average
Roots
Your
Radio
Players
Early
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.
Dorian Missick
Black
Three
White
Think
Characters
Write
Writers
Put
Stereotypes
Come
Disconnected
Lot
Friends
Times
Situations
Maybe
Them
Who
Ridiculous
Two
I've been to the White House a number of times.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
White
White House
House
Been
Times
Number
I just umpire. That's what I've done. That's all I can do. I'm one of the fortunate ones on God's earth. I found what God meant for me to do. People ask if I like working home plate best. I just want to be between the white lines. That's where I belong, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Doug Harvey
God
Best
Home
Me
People
White
Other
Earth
Way
Between
Like
Lines
Umpire
Any
Done
Just
Any Other Way
Where
Want
Ask
Working
Meant
Fortunate
Home Plate
Plate
Found
Belong
Traverse City sits halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and our summer days are long. The light seems to take forever to vanish from the sky, and when it does, it goes out like someone folding a white sheet in the dark. A flare on the horizon. Then a rustle: Goodnight.
Doug Stanton
Dark
Light
Sky
Long
White
Our
Summer
Out
Folding
City
Vanish
Horizon
Someone
Seems
Rustle
Take
Between
Pole
Days
Goodnight
Like
Halfway
Sheet
Does
Forever
North
Goes
North Pole
Flare
Then
Traverse
It's a dirty little secret that I'm pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don't even know exist.
Doug TenNapel
Work
Love
Time
Me
People
Problems
Black
Black And White
Own
White
Every
Every Time
Secret
Out
Solutions
Freaked
Exactly
Photoshop
Exactly What
See
Pretty
About
My Own
More
Color
Dirty
Coloring
Self-Conscious
Know
Exist
Hit
Than
Offers
Get
So Many People
Just
Little
Who
Many
Even
Million
There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene, I had flack from the white union for hiring black musicians. I had flack from the black musician by hiring white musicians.
Dr. John
Me
Musicians
Problem
Black
Recording
White
Unions
Musician
Scene
Segregated
Had
Because
Real
Hiring
Real Problem
Which
Working
Union
The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.
Duane Allman
Music
Cats
Simple
White
Beach
Blacks
Scene
Daytona
Surf
Social
Play
Play Music
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
Duncan Jones
You
Man
Sister
White
Baby
Somalia
Always
American
May
African
African-American
Noticed
English
Dad
I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the chips out of chocolate chip cookies, the white side off of black and white cookies, and the vanilla center out of Oreos.
Dylan Lauren
Love
Black
Black And White
White
Side
Out
Oatmeal
Vanilla
Eater
Pick
Picky
Am
Off
Center
Mean
Chip
Chips
Chocolate
Cookies
Raisin
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or female. Also, I was a great admirer of E.B. White, so I may have thought that it would bring me luck to submit my first manuscript as 'E.L.' But if I were starting out today, I would use my first name.
E. L. Konigsburg
Today
Great
Me
Writing
Thought
First
Important
Submit
White
Luck
Out
Would
Admirer
Name
Know
Also
First Name
Readers
Female
Were
Male
Began
May
Whether
Use
Manuscript
Bring
Starting
I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
Ed Sheeran
Random
White
Nights
Signed
Gigs
Some
Pretty
About
Only
No-One
Weird
Talk
Were
Up
Person
Done
Where
Interesting
Turned
Really
Fun
Play
Played
Night
When I'm dressing down, it's simple: I want a good cut, no logos, and usually quite dark colors. My wardrobe is pretty much black, gray, and navy, with a little bit of white.
Ed Skrein
Good
Dark
Simple
Black
White
Down
Bit
Logos
Pretty
Dressing
Colors
Quite
Want
Wardrobe
Little
Little Bit
Cut
Much
Navy
Gray
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