- House
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn't done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn't know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a black conservative and you criticize the black community, you're an Uncle Tom. If you're a white conservative and you criticize the black community, you're somehow a racist.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It's called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It's a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.
- Dr. King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down there. He was in town to organize a rally against public transportation. Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, which was illegal back then.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a kiddie pool attendant, and I was a white rapper. That's not going to get you a job on Wall Street.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God's word, so he have to go and get some white fellow's agenda and put it in his church.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.
- American Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I'm doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that's such a dominant model in white literary discourse.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020