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.
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches...
There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have that are similar!
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With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.
There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
I don't sing white; I don't sing black - I sing Bronx. When I sing 'Ruby Baby,' I'm rolling like Jimmy Reed. I wanted to communicate like Hank Williams and groove like Jimmy Reed.
There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own...
I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the...
I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.'
I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'
You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.
I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm...
My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know?
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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.
