- Character
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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
- Chamber
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not enough for us to merely continue to talk about and contribute to the echo chamber of white noise of what's wrong with America or for candidates to spout off silly poll-tested talking points about national security or foreign policy.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.
- Disturbance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
- Early
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so lucky and blessed to have gotten 'White Chicks' so early into my career.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
- Race
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority, and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020