--- title: "14 White Quotes By Tim Wise" description: "14 White quotes by Tim Wise. Plus more from Tim Wise and more White sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/tim-wise-14074_folks_there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-arou_1749756.jpg" --- > [There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-around-who-think-the-1950s-were/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/tim-wise-14074_folks_there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-arou_1749756.jpg) > [You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/you-can-t-organize-people-if-you-don-t-love-them-and-however-hard-it/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/tim-wise-14074_contact_you-can-t-organize-people-if-you-don-t-l_893802.jpg) > [Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/old-white-people-have-pretty-much-always-been-the-bad-guys-the/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/tim-wise-14074_always_old-white-people-have-pretty-much-always_1409701.jpg) > [Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/precisely-because-white-denial-has-long-trumped-claims-of-racism/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b68/tim-wise-14074_because_precisely-because-white-denial-has-long_2813312.jpg) > [If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/if-you-want-to-know-if-racism-is-a-problem-in-your-country-you-might/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/tim-wise-14074_ask_if-you-want-to-know-if-racism-is-a-probl_1547078.jpg) > [Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/only-blacks-can-play-the-race-card-apparently-only-they-think-in/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/176/tim-wise-14074_america_only-blacks-can-play-the-race-card-appar_3182732.jpg) > [The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/the-system-of-white-supremacy-is-intended-to-make-folks-of-color/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5f/tim-wise-14074_ability_the-system-of-white-supremacy-is-intende_1390405.jpg) > [Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/antiracism-is-not-my-campaign-i-have-been-doing-antiracism-organizing/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d32/tim-wise-14074_activism_antiracism-is-not-my-campaign-i-have-bee_2617903.jpg) > [Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/our-failure-as-a-society-to-properly-acknowledge-and-confront-the/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/tim-wise-14074_acknowledge_our-failure-as-a-society-to-properly-ack_2433609.jpg) > [Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/jesus-was-not-born-in-a-manger-in-central-pennsylvania-he-was-a-man/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/tim-wise-14074_born_jesus-was-not-born-in-a-manger-in-centra_3040876.jpg) > [Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/here-s-the-reality-the-image-of-a-white-jesus-has-been-used-to/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68a/tim-wise-14074_banner_here-s-the-reality-the-image-of-a-white_1259.jpg) > [If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/if-you-know-the-history-of-the-whole-concept-of-whiteness-if-you-know/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/tim-wise-14074_colony_if-you-know-the-history-of-the-whole-con_3077083.jpg) > [When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/when-i-got-to-college-the-fake-id-thing-wasn-t-that-important-since/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b9/tim-wise-14074_black_when-i-got-to-college-the-fake-id-thing_1272804.jpg) > [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/stuff-happens-that-s-the-g-rated-version-that-s-a-bumper-sticker-that/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/tim-wise-14074_bumper_stuff-happens-that-s-the-g-rated-version_2436714.jpg) ## Other authors on White ## More by Tim Wise > [Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/here-s-the-reality-the-image-of-a-white-jesus-has-been-used-to/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/for-people-of-color-especially-african-americans-the-idea-that-racist/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/progress-is-always-relative-to-the-oppressed-it-can-only-be-viewed-as/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/i-don-t-think-the-job-of-the-antiracist-is-to-convert-the-far-out/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/and-in-elbow-room-the-cast-sings-the-glories-of-westward-expansion-in/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/if-we-dont-figure-out-a-way-to-create-equity-real-equity-of/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [So, in "Melting Pot" the children (about a third of whom were kids of color) sang the line, "America was the new world and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/so-in-melting-pot-the-children-about-a-third-of-whom-were-kids-of/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/hardly-any-aspect-of-my-life-from-where-i-had-lived-to-my-education/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [People of color have to do this work as a mater of everyday survival. And so long as they have to, who am I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/people-of-color-have-to-do-this-work-as-a-mater-of-everyday-survival/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [You can't organize people if you don't love them. And however hard it can be to love the racist you come in contact with;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/you-can-t-organize-people-if-you-don-t-love-them-and-however-hard-it/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/the-denial-of-racism-is-a-form-of-racism-itself/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [Being asked to describe what 'post-racial' means is a bit like being asked to describe a leprechaun, cold fusion or unicorns: we know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/being-asked-to-describe-what-post-racial-means-is-a-bit-like-being/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/as-a-writer-there-are-times-when-you-have-something-to-say-and-yet-no/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [“The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/the-power-of-resistance-is-to-set-an-example-not-necessarily-to/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) > [When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/when-you-allow-racial-disparity-and-institutional-inequity-to-affect/) [Tim Wise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-wise/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/white/tim-wise/#itemlist", "name": "14 White Quotes By Tim Wise", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t be any more white folks around who actually remember them...", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tim Wise" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-around-who-think-the-1950s-were/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/tim-wise-14074_folks_there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-arou_1749756.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/tim-wise-14074_folks_there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-arou_1749756.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/tim-wise-14074_folks_there-won-t-be-any-more-white-folks-arou_1749756.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There won’t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won’t…” — Tim Wise", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You can't organize people if you don't love them. 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He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tim Wise" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-wise/jesus-was-not-born-in-a-manger-in-central-pennsylvania-he-was-a-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/tim-wise-14074_born_jesus-was-not-born-in-a-manger-in-centra_3040876.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/tim-wise-14074_born_jesus-was-not-born-in-a-manger-in-centra_3040876.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db2/tim-wise-14074_born_jesus-was-not-born-in-a-manger-in-centra_3040876.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. 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