- Difficult
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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.
- Mayor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like having my mistakes corrected, but I wonder if it’s because you’re forced to have a certain humility if you’re not an affluent white man.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.
- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is black celebrities are not as sought after in the press as white celebrities, and that is comforting.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020