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You are a much more forceful advocate against gender bias and wage inequality if you actually hire women. If you are a white man who advocates for change, then hire someone other than a white man as an example of that change.
After assessing what's in your closet, make a list of what you need. Not want, but need. Write down the basics missing from your wardrobe. It could be a classic white shirt, a trenchcoat, or the perfect little black dress. Whatever the blank spots, write them down. This will be your reference for shopping.
I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
The words 'give up,' 'raise the white flag' do not exist in my vocabulary.
When I made 'Whale Rider' - of course, I'm not Maori and have no business, as a white girl, telling people how to be in this movie - I started by learning the language, as best I could.
As a white person I can educate myself to see how we can try to bring positive change. I learned how John Lewis put his life on the line to fight for change, and he did that at a very difficult time.
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men.
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.
The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.
Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.
What's wrong with Singapore is the idea that things need to be done in a certain way or not at all. Black or white. No room for alternative discussion.
Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see what they were talking about. If a political topic was on their radar, I used it as ammunition with the president or the White House staff.
When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.
The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.
Life isn't black or white, it's all sorts of shades of grey.
In every city and town let's see the red and white colours of England flying from court houses, police stations, town halls, even churches.
The Scottish aren't embarrassed about their nation, or their flag. Far from it. You can't move in Edinburgh or Glasgow without seeing a blue and white saltire flapping in the wind.But the English ruling classes seem to be embarrassed about Englishness.
You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.
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