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.
I've been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.
Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.
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Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign...
I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range...
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.
When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.
It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
I felt more and more like I was putting on an act - like I was being shoved into this role of ‘angry white man in a punk band.'
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
I'm working as hard as I can to get a rescue dog into the White House. It'd be a dream.
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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.
