When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

- Andrew Young

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

- Alex Berenson

When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.

- Alan Furst

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

- Aisha Tyler

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

- Aziz Ansari

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

- ASAP Rocky

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

- Aretha Franklin

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

- Angelina Jolie

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

- Andrew Young

We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

- Aaron Sorkin

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

- Andrew Young

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

- Andrew Johnson

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.

- Amiri Baraka

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

- Alice Walker

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

- Alan Rickman

Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.

- Al Sharpton

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

- Adam McKay

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

- Abraham Lincoln

You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

- Aaron Sorkin