- Car
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The narrative needs to change. Asian-American actresses don't want to be the damsels in distress anymore. We don't want to be saved, especially by a white man.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.
- Nov 07, 2020
The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
- Go-Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wear white or black socks.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
- Miss
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this was the ultimate: Mississippi was the place you had to break it.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the U.S. Capitol and the White House, both of which were under the control of segregationists and their collaborators.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a friend who wanted to practise on my head because they wanted to be a stylist. So I offered what hair I had left to turn white.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a professional black storyteller - writer, musician, filmmaker.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020