- Family
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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
- Colleague
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene, I had flack from the white union for hiring black musicians. I had flack from the black musician by hiring white musicians.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama had a few historians at the White House for a couple of dinners. I was lucky enough to be one of those asked, and he was very interested in Ronald Reagan, and I came away feeling that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life after the White House found Dad enjoying having his grandchildren around and letting go of all the enormous burden he shouldered throughout his public life.
- Disconnected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020