- Bad Stuff
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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
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our core business are those pieces that you really want to have accessible to you but you don't really want to worry about, like a great white button-down.
- Black Or White
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!
- Colors
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like edgy but classic looks - like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I'm more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it would be difficult to argue that I'm a net-negative for womankind. I've tried pretty hard to bring in unusual female voices and perspectives. Not just young women and not just white women, either. I don't know that I'm the best target for improvement. I don't know that I'm the problem.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020