- 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
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever is sitting in the White House, especially in their second term, when gas goes up to $3 a gallon, and Katrina, and whenever we're at war, that person sitting in the White House gets the brunt of the accusations.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.'
- Brook
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me years to find a program that kept me in shape: Gyms felt intimidating, and women's magazines seemed tailored for toning the bodies of already trim white women.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.
- Eisenhower
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.
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- Nov 07, 2020