- Right
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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
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen Ralph Lauren, Rick Owens, or Raf Simons described as white designers. They are just designers.
- Dare
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't always use dwarfs, unfortunately. They shouldn't be allowed to do that! How dare they do 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and not have dwarfs!
- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
Light-skinned privilege is largely through a white lens. It is exploited by oppressive forces... It was always a facade.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friend once sculpted me a bust of Admiral Ackbar from 'Star Wars.' He's my favourite character in the films after Han Solo. He's that goldfish-type alien in the white costume. 'It's a trap!' I'm a big geek.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pay gap is a myth, and the pay gap is something that the White House used in 2012 to get Barack Obama elected. It's something obviously that Terry McAuliffe used to get himself elected, and it plays on this idea that women are somehow discriminated against in the workplace and that they're not paid the same amount as men.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020