- Mind
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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
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White House.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama is an inspiration of mine, and interning with his administration in the White House opened my eyes to the possibilities of making change at the local level.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this vision of shooting a great white in the studio with all the edge lights I use for movie posters. I knew that I couldn't bring the great white to the studio, so I had to bring the studio to the great white.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people scare the crap out of me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wear the same thing every day. I always pack two black jackets, loads of black T-shirts, loads of white jeans. I feel a little fresh and glamorous and graphic.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight... Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020