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White Quotes

Honest reflections on identity and race.

This collection gathers personal reflections on racial identity, including memories of growing up in a mostly separate community and the ongoing search for roles that were written with a different actor in mind. It connects to broader conversations in our Black quotes.

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You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

9

I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.

Quotes by Agnes Varda

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It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I...

Quotes by Adolphe Menjou

7

Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

Black Quotes

6

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson II

5

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

Quotes by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

4

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.

Quotes by Adepero Oduye

3

There has got to be a way for me to have a role on TV or in film that is just as normal as any other white actor. That's what I'm trying to get at.

Quotes by Adeel Akhtar

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I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a...

Quotes by Adam Richman

Black And White Quotes

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

Quotes by Adam McKay

One entry describes a secondhand brush with a racist remark made among friends, a moment worth reading alongside our Black And White quotes, while a lighter closing line plays on the phrase White House, tying into our House quotes.