- Morning
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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
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a white fighter, you get twice as much criticism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tennis players need to be very focused and very intense, and I can show tennis players are not just hitting the little yellow ball and moving in between the white lines. I'm always trying to show my personality outside of the court.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream to make films.
- Nov 07, 2020
Before the Beatles could give us 'The White Album', they had to achieve disorienting success.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.'
- Favorite Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful to play at Wembley - it is a very historical place - but it is not the same feeling as White Hart Lane.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative.
- Likes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
'White Boy from Sacramento' is just sort of a tongue-in-cheek autobiography. I hoped it came out a little humorous, but it's really all true.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020