The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley 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
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
“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
'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 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
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
There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're… — Celeste Ng 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
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie… — Amy Sherald 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“In Plaster I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with… — Adam Serwer Copy Share Image
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This… — Robin DiAngelo 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
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
“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 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
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 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
...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change. — James Hansen 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
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy 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
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
“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.” — Michael Eric Dyson 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
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