- Me
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
- Clemency
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt more and more like I was putting on an act - like I was being shoved into this role of ‘angry white man in a punk band.'
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020