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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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters.
- Compounding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of bankers and lawyers, and they joked that they can't believe I'm the one that gets to go to the White House.
- NASA
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- Nov 07, 2020
Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.
- NASA
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is this: NASA was desegregated by a white male. NASA was not desegregated by a black male. NASA was not desegregated by white women.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all humans. Any human can tell any human's story. I don't want to have this conversation about black film or white film anymore. I wanna have conversations about film.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of making 'Hidden Figures' has shown me the automatic privilege that all white men are afforded in America in 2017 and in any and every year before that.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to figure out who they are. They're dealing with identity issues and crises. That is exciting to me, to see African-American young people on a page, on a screen, who are so diverse and whose stories are all so different.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
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- Nov 07, 2020