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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
Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually asked to do the Christmas design for the White House. I thought it would be interesting, given that it has such a rich history, to decorate around some real beautiful oversized images of the history of the White House and the history of the country.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
- Nov 07, 2020
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.
- Privilege
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, all I knew about Michael Jackson was that he was crazy. He had a monkey named Bubbles and some kind of oxygen chamber, and he used to be black, but he made himself white, and he was nuts. That was Michael Jackson in full. Wacko Jacko.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're the handsome white guy, you tend to get cast as guys who are meant to be convincing in their jobs. What I've been fortunate enough to do, whether it's playing a certified idiot on '30 Rock' or a weirdo in 'Bridesmaids,' is play against that in a lot of ways.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
- Bows
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always have a black bow, a white bow, a rainbow bow - those bows will match literally just about everything!
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.
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- Nov 07, 2020