Whiteman Quotes

“It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“The only proof of God in the world was color. Everything would have worked the same without it. So why would the world have been made so full of color if there wasn't a God?”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“Every gift is held by two hands: the one that gives, and the one that takes away.”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What other country can throw away money sending its people to live with savages?”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“It is good that a man should have his wife close at hand. It makes the spirit happy and guards against insanity.”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“Let the weight of the stars lay on our chests”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman

“Whole villages of Muslims had been hacked to pieces by drunken Christian youth, and as foreigners, we should have been pulled out by the organization. But the U.S. government supported the Christian tribes, just as the French had all through the colonial days, and to pull us out would have meant admitting that things weren't as stable for their puppet government as the western companies, trading in Ivory Coast for cocoa, rubber, and timber, and selling Coke and cigarettes, wanted to hear.”
― Tony D'Souza, Whiteman