“I could scarcely summon courage to rise. But even those large, venomous snakes were less dreadful to my imagination than the white… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The election of President Trump was all about whiteness. How whiteness is ingeniously adaptable to a gross variety of circumstances. How it… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight — Giannis Ritsos 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 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
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 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 global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and… — Sophy Burnham 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
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do -… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“If we analyze white supremacy from the philosophical lens of Star Wars, then it is all the Sith Lords, the Empire, and… — Wajahat Ali Copy Share Image
“Mick had once come across one of Wilson't books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover. Mick was… — Sherman Alexie 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
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the… — Tim Wise 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
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
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
In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.” — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear. — Dogen 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
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I will look white again like a disease, you will see my whiteness and feel dis-ease, lovers alone wear sunlight, ee’s said.” — A.J. Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous. — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
“He liked to refer to his whiteness the way all white liberals did: only acknowledging it when he felt oppressed by it,… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk… — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
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