- People
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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty fearless person. I'm afraid of, like, creepy men in white vans and sidewalks with no streetlights. But I'm not afraid to go in front of someone and twerk on them.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are a certain kind of white conservative, especially a white male conservative, then Roger Ailes was a hero. He constructed a world in which your core beliefs and your gut instincts were, and still are, constantly validated.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020