- Hispanic
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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
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
- Bread
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love black truffles. I love white truffles.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
- Blood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other people who they perceive to be richer than them, whiter than them.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020