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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main electric guitar belonged to Clarence White, the great guitarist for the Byrds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
- Deplorable
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the main reason why the Rugby World Cup, the Pacific islands excepted, was so desperately white, the Springboks included.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in it, and most of the protagonists are either white or creatures.
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- Nov 07, 2020