- 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
- Many
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everything looks the same at art fairs - very hygienic, very white, lots of right angles.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
- Fresh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
- Black Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
- Chocolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or black - the color of chocolate or peanut butter!
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020