- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!
- Pants
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
- Enough Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people-pleasing and performing is 100% ingrained in me, partly because I was a little brown girl growing up in a very white, homogeneous community in San Diego - where, in second grade, I was called a terrorist.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020