- People
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
To political technocrats, 2008 marks the maturation of 'microtargeting' - a technique that, if things are as close in November as expected, may well affect who takes the White House.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter provides a platform that allows anyone on the planet - from a political activist in the Middle East to an intemperate golfer in the White House - to broadcast his or her thoughts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The press is largely directed at white society or the so-called electorate whose values are laced with racial prejudice against black people.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When should a man stop wearing sports jerseys? When the buttons of his White Sox top finally pop, like rivets on a distressed ocean liner? When the pinstripes of his Yankees shirt have grown wider at the midsection than at the top, as the longitudinal lines on a globe?
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Bloomington, Minn., I loved the ritual of dressing for Little League - in white socks, blue stirrups, belted pants, a double-knit jersey, and the cap I'd hold over my face to screen out mosquitoes in right field.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock 'n' roll guitar came from blues guitar. It was the blues guys who first turned the amp up and started whacking on the Stratocaster and a Les Paul. It wasn't the country guys and it wasn't the white guys; it was the Blues guys. That's where the real fire is in all of this rock and roll music.
- Nationalist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist. I'm an economic nationalist.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like, when they say to me, 'Screamin' A.' - I'm the only dude on the air who's loud? I know plenty of white dudes who are screaming and going off. They're called passionate. I'm called loud.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan get elected to the White House, Medicare will be bankrupt by the end of their first term.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was as intrigued by the Evil Queen as I was charmed by Snow White.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020