“I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this “condition” affected the way… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness"… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Huh. I’m not sure how to respond to this. Is Alex Trebek black? He sure doesn’t look black. He looks pretty white… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“I was successful and acceptable and loved because I was—and still am—great at negotiating with whiteness. But that means my white friends… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“Beloved, to be white is to know that you have at your own hand, or by extension, through institutionalized means, the power… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“White contains a balance of all colors in the spectrum, representing both the positive and negative aspects of all colors. Given it’s… — Chantal Larocque Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The brain "fills in" the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“The vitality associated with blackness might cancel out the vulnerability associated with femininity in the search for a field hand, while a… — Walter Johnson Copy Share Image
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As I listen to their jive, I try to find my way around the street mind, the black man's mind. Feeling left… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“The incident emphasizes once more that beauty is something to be found, rather than passively encountered, that it requires us to pick… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position… — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my… — Gregg Popovich Copy Share Image
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives,… — Kelela Copy Share Image
No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The "we" evoked here is all of us, black people/people of color, who are daily bombarded by a powerful colonizing whiteness that… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“The Virgin Mary is the supreme exemplar of this feminine whiteness. Her fair hair 20 and complexion, often white robes and association… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“My friends, the mistake we often make is to believe that whiteness is only prejudice, that it is only bigotry, that it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“The ideal of whiteness makes a strong appeal. It flatters white people by associating them with (what they define as) the best… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
