Man Quote by Brett Gelman

I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.

— Lena Waithe

The further away you get from being a straight white man, the less freedoms you have to figure out who you are and negotiate…

— Justin Simien

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

— Richard Pryor

As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing to do…

— Sarah Cooper

I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves.

— Justin Simien

You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not…

— Utkarsh Ambudkar

The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less…

— Phoebe Robinson

For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black,…

— Barbara Neely

I don't wanna be labeled as straight or labeled as gay. I just want people to look at me and see me as white.

— Sarah Silverman

There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that…

— Anonymous

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second…

— Thomas Sowell