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
Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position… — Noel Ignatiev 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
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
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
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
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
The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more… — Luvvie Ajayi 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
“To Trump whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The Nazis played the same games against Jews that today’s left plays against 'Eurocentrism,' 'whiteness,' and 'logocentrism.' When you hear a campus… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness"… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
“I stare up at whiteness. When I was young, I thought that was what heaven would be like, all white light and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about… — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
“I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this “condition” affected the way… — Danzy Senna 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
“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
From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith… — Isaac Newton 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
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 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
“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
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
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
