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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like quinoa and brown rice, and I try to do that over a lot of white flour bread, even though I love that kind of bread.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of Joe Biden's strengths has always been his folksy likability, but when he rails against Trump voters as white supremacists and threatens to take the president behind the gym to fight him or whatever, he comes across as a myopic politician steeped in self-preserving orthodoxy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into my pockets. I took blush, toothpaste, two chipped finger bowls in celadon blue, a bottle of nail polish, a pair of worn patent-leather ballet slippers, and four faded white pillowcases the color of old teeth.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
- Counterparts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose instead to do 'Alexander Hamilton' because I felt like I was meeting a moment.
- Nov 07, 2020
The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020