Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
“Now, on the contrary, here he was , plunged into a whiteness so luminous, so total, that it swallowed up rather than… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness.… — Janet Evanovich 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“The history of representations of Cleopatra provides one of the clearest instances of the conviction that whiteness is the pinnacle of human… — Richard Dyer 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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Huh. I’m not sure how to respond to this. Is Alex Trebek black? He sure doesn’t look black. He looks pretty white… — A.J. Jacobs 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
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“As I listen to their jive, I try to find my way around the street mind, the black man's mind. Feeling left… — Jennifer Lee 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
In the music industry, you can't create success without having to engage a white man. It's just not possible. Whether it's executives,… — Kelela 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
