- Everything
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- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, I came up under Mike White, and Miguel Arteta; I was Mike White's assistant on 'Dawson's Creek.'
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are all kinds of monuments to adults - usually dead and usually white. But we don't often lift up the extraordinary work of children.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.
- Nov 07, 2020
I had never seen a white teacher before, but Mrs. Henry was the nicest teacher I ever had.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals. For a moment I stepped out of my body.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually we got to a point where 'Riverdale' came along, and it was a character that was originally written white, and I saw this as an opportunity to take a classic American character and make them Asian.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.
- Fare
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
- Nervous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I met David Bowie, I was very nervous. I thought, 'Here comes the Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust. How will I ever communicate with him?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020