I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
And so, as they climb the ladder of achievement, I'd simply say, remember what Barbara Bush told those girls at Wellesley: "What… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes. — Godfrey Copy Share Image
And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on,… — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
[Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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I think it's important to accept all the ways that we're absurdly lucky. I'm a white male from a safe city in… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
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It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made.… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I don't care if you white, black, Mexican, Chinese or a MaxBoxing columnist, you all a bunch of sissies to me. — James Toney Copy Share Image
The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
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There is no superior person by constitutional standards. An applicant who is white is entitled to no advantage by reason of that… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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![“The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the minds of the [white] men who rule Alabama, those children had never lived [...] their blood is on so many hands, that history will weep in the telling...and it is not new…” quote by Roger Ebert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/043/roger-ebert-655_alabama_the-children-of-birmingham-did-not-reall_2428612.jpg)
![“[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.” quote by Black Hawk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c1/black-hawk-36816_american-indian_black-hawk-has-fought-for-his-countrymen_2431586.jpg)
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![“It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.” quote by Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c9/julian-barnes-522_atheist_it-is-a-bizarre-thought-that-in-this-u-s_2435314.jpg)
