- 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
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When black men become millionaires and can buy expensive homes for their families, it infuriates people who cherish the social construct where white people are at the top and people of other ethnic backgrounds are below.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
- Degeneration
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.
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- Nov 07, 2020
White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the legs than flesh color.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap contest. This may be the final frontier for pop, more unbelievable than the prospect of launching a member of 'N Sync into orbit.
- Coleman
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - I'm going to go into hip-hop.'
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance as 'Snow White', the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020