“I represent everything that distances Richard Pryor from Peoria, Illinois' ghettos.” — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does. — Rachel Dolezal Copy Share Image
I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness. — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness. — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness. — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
“When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight — Giannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as… — Timothy Thomas Fortune 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
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
“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
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 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
“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 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
“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson 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
