We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race. — Noel Ignatiev Copy Share Image
“I represent everything that distances Richard Pryor from Peoria, Illinois' ghettos.” — 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
Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness. — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
“The history of whiteness in America is one long scroll of affirmative action.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley 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
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
“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
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
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
'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of… — Anatoly Berezovoy Copy Share Image
Those who politically theorise the artificial concept of 'whiteness' infer that anyone who has white skin cannot escape their unconscious bias. If… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between agreement and understanding: When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether "I don't… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“... it's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness. Same goes if you swap whiteness out… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I see us as a black and white version of John and Yoko, a duet of magic and productivity. It feels as… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
“A Poem By Max White is the color of little bunnies with pink noses. White is the color of fluffy clouds fluffing… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“To justify such direct forms of imperialism and oppression, whites developed the IDEA of whiteness to define a privileged social category elevated… — Allan G. Johnson Copy Share Image
I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of… — Therese of Lisieux 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
Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“If, as a white person, I conceptualize racism as a binary and I see myself on the "not racist" side, what further… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas,… — John Locke 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
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
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