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.
My real name is Joseph Herbert. My dad is white; my mom's Asian, Filipino. And when I started stand-up 22 years ago, I used to go up as Joseph Herbert, and I would just have to defend my name. Every...
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Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?
Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.
Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its...
What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That's where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.
I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but...
George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are, but I have to say it's not because of my brushing skills. It's from Crest Whitestrips, and that's the honest truth....
I think aggressive, sometimes outspoken reporting from the White House briefing room is expected by the American people.
I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.
'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.
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What perspectives does this collection of White quotes offer?
Is there a quote about growing up with a segregated experience?
Is there a quote about aspiring to the kind of roles typically written for white actors?
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Is there a quote that plays with the phrase 'White House'?
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.
