“I represent everything that distances Richard Pryor from Peoria, Illinois' ghettos.” — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does. — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight — Giannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
“When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness. — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“I could scarcely summon courage to rise. But even those large, venomous snakes were less dreadful to my imagination than the white… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with… — Adam Serwer Copy Share Image
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“In Plaster I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“If we analyze white supremacy from the philosophical lens of Star Wars, then it is all the Sith Lords, the Empire, and… — Wajahat Ali Copy Share Image
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness. — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
“The election of President Trump was all about whiteness. How whiteness is ingeniously adaptable to a gross variety of circumstances. How it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
