- Fresh
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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
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play the Wicked Queen in 'Snow White.' I'm not typecast. It's terrible. I should be Prince Charming.
- Nov 07, 2020
My signature dish is seafood lasagne - massive king prawns, smoked haddock, cod and a white sauce.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.'
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I didn't know whether to hang out with the black kids or the white kids, and then I found the theatre kids, and I was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter.' We were all weird and listening to Morrissey and wearing Doc Martens so that was my tribe.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not going to say that only people of color can write people of color, because that means only white people can write white people, and that's not OK.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around 1969, my family had just bought a house in a lower-middle-class white neighborhood two blocks away from school. Then, all of a sudden, all the white people left the neighborhood and the school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020