- Always
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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
- Banjo
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was such hostility to the idea of a banjo being a black instrument. It was co-opted by this white supremacist notion that old-time music was the inheritance of white America.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play a replica of a banjo from the 1950s. It was the first commercial-style banjo in the United States so it's the first one that white people played.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would have liked to invent the plain white shirt, with a skirt and pants to go with it.
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried moving to the more white area, but I found that every night I was getting harassed by police.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are all kinds of ways in which especially white men in this country have been helped by the government.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
Newfoundlanders, what are we? We're slobbering idiots, slack-jawed simpletons, rustic fish billies living in Dogpatch-on-the-rocks, lower than lower Slobovians, the laughing stock and 'white trash' of Canada.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020