“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed… — Noel Ignatiev 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
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Many otherwise decent, smart, and fair-minded white folks may also recoil at the thought that Whiteness and White Masculinity can be dysfunctional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“Nothing changes if we just feel shitty about being White. And nothing changes if we refuse to talk about it. The opposite… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear. — Dogen Copy Share Image
This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward… — Langston Hughes 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
What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
