- Basketball Team
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justin Hayward was a teenager when he was drafted into the Moody Blues in 1966. He brought with him one song he had written for his girlfriend. This was called 'Nights in White Satin,' which subsequently made a fortune for a lot of people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bombshell' is a remarkable podcast. In the course of it, three people who know what they are talking about cover 'military strategy, White House mayhem, and the best cocktails'.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the Trump administration, the traditional structure of White House oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being dismantled.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement - specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot of mixed friends. When I was young, I identified with being Jewish, but I embraced my dad's side, too.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
- Century
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- Nov 07, 2020