- 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
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.
- Bush Administration
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Appropriation is a fact of life; no point in complaining about it. But if that's the way the game's being played, let's do it on both sides. I don't want some white guy making 'A Rage in Harlem III' if I can't do 'The Godfather V' or 'E.T. III.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the way from church one day when my sister and I were 7 or 8, I was beaten by some white bikers.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to exclusively direct white films, or black films. I want to have a choice.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020