The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me. — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I will look white again like a disease, you will see my whiteness and feel dis-ease, lovers alone wear sunlight, ee’s said.” — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
I do think that we have to be careful not to assume that getting a perm or wearing a blonde wig is… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“My Country I don't have any caps left made back home Nor any shoes that trod your roads I've worn out your… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
“I am weary with whiteness. To rule, to be civilized and chaste; you do not know what weariness it is. My woman… — Waldo Frank Copy Share Image
When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk… — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Mick had once come across one of Wilson't books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover. Mick was… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Yet the lure of the ideal is also, often imperceptibly, haunted by misgiving, even anxiety. Not only is whiteness as absence impossible,… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Death may in some traditions be a vivid experience, but within much of the white tradition it is a blank that may… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous. — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“He liked to refer to his whiteness the way all white liberals did: only acknowledging it when he felt oppressed by it,… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear. — Dogen Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image