I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people. — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are. — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
“He might have thought white people was coyotes, but he still shared food with me. Long as people do that, I guess… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
I have noticed that no other group of people in the United States truly loves America as a whole like white people… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“The Great Socialist himself is said to have embezzled one billion rupees from the Darkness, and transferred that money into a bank… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo . Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin . Burn it.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've found in conversations with people - and not just white people either, because I realize there are some Black people that… — Jemele Hill Copy Share Image
There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I believe that also it should be stressed and made clear that our antagonistic position is not to say "I don't like… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
My mother had two unshakable beliefs that she tried to drill into me. The first was that I had to study and… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“A few days earlier, Chess and Thomas had driven to Spokane for a cheap hamburger. They walked in downtown Spokane and stumbled… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are some really great books that have been written about slavery, but I don't think that the discourse about it in… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
If you discuss the beliefs of Christianity with the village diviner, the medicine man, he will say the white man must be… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
“What are you-- White people don’t do things like this. I’m sure they don’t. Stop! Please?” Alarmed by her tone, Hunter lifted… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?” “No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Once I had a professor say to me, "You know you have as much education as a lot of white people." I… — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Whenever a Black person or group used White people as a standard of measurement, and cast another Black person or group as… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey,… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“Not all white people are animal, but 99% of historic predators, terrorists, and traffickers were white.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
White people have always slipped in and out of the experiences of people of color and been praised extravagantly for it. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Barriers today are largely class-based - income, networks, education. And those affect many white people as well. — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“I've never considered myself a yoga person; in fact I'm kinda disgusted by the whole yoga phenomenon - pampered white people getting… — Laura Wolf Copy Share Image
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image