White Quotes
5417 quotes by 3130 authors
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is the chief…
— Doris Lessing
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Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.
— Malcolm X
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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle…
— Malcolm X
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a…
— H. L. Mencken
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It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have…
— William Ruckelshaus
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"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they…
— Gertrude Stein
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really…
— Barbra Streisand
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the…
— Tecumseh
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We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and…
— Desmond Tutu
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When I care about black liberation, it is because I care about white liberation.
— Desmond Tutu
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Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.
— Merle Woo
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
— Andrew Young
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,…
— Whitney M. Young
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He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with…
— Jacques Prevert
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The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.
— Justin Timberlake
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
— Jonathan Swift
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation -…
— David Lloyd George
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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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I headed for this white mountain, but was caught in the wind and the mist . . . I followed the cliff from north to…
— Louis Bleriot
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