Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.
By 1976, I was, like, Gonesville. I practically lived at the Troubador for several years. When Bette Midler was there for six weeks, I went every day for both shows. I sat there mesmerized. The only person who went as much as I did was Cher.
I'm better looking in person.
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.
I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.
The most impressive person I've ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She's a much better person than me. But I've got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it's been forty-seven years.
If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.
I'm sure Mourinho will make me a better player and a better person.
I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Beware of the person of one book.
Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.
