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.
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
I understand what I look like, and I understand the strengths I have, which is basic, generic white guy.
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.
The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it.
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.
I notice, a lot of white rappers sometimes, they'll feel like they have to be, like, almost aggressive.
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not...
Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it?...
I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any...
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell...
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
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What perspectives does this collection of White quotes offer?
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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.
