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.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.
It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or...
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The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.
All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for...
I was so lucky and blessed to have gotten 'White Chicks' so early into my career.
Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he sings with white soul. He's singing and he's writing songs from the bottom of his gut.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it...
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.
There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will.
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.
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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.
