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.
Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the...
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my...
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.
Most often, qualifications are defined by the credentials of the person who last held the job. If that is to continue to be the litmus test, white males will continue to be the top choice on any list, if the...
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.
In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.
The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.
On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read...
I was arrested twice in demonstrations in front of the Obama White House in the push for DACA.
I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'White Christmas' - those kind of movies.
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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.
