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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

— B. B. King

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

— John Locke

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

— Clarence Thomas

I never drank water. Always soda. I didn't use to like water, but I've had to train myself to drink it.

— Missy Elliott

There's no common taste in this world.

— Stephen Chow

Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?

— Amy Heckerling

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

— Russel Honore

I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.

— Stephen Curry

✗Opposing Perspectives

If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean.

— Molly Ivins

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

— Chris Tucker

When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

— Georg Trakl