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Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that you wonder how you and people you know and love could come from such a time.


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MINOR WHITE In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took th...
BARRY WHITE I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters get...
THEODORE WHITE A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE Oh, the blues ain't nothing but a good woman feeling bad.
GEORGIA WHITE Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.
TRAVIS WHITE The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath i...
EDMUND WHITE Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and merc...
THEODORE WHITE The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.
SLAPPY WHITE If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
T.H. WHITE We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
T.H. WHITE The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.
T.H. WHITE The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God
ANDREW WHITE A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to.
SOMERS WHITE God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
REGGIE WHITE When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and...
HUGH WHITE