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White Quotes by Sherman Alexie
- I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social…
- In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't…
- At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural…
- Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the…
- Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town…
- White Americans have a short memory.
- You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where…
- Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family…
- That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror…
- I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this…
- ...it's like this white-Indian thing has gotten out of control. And the thing with the blacks and the Mexicans. Everybody blaming everybody...I don't know what…
- Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians…
- They put me in a holding cell with a black kid and a white kid and a Chinese kid. We're the United Nations of juvenile…
- And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And…
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- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
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- American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at… — Russell Baker
- It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine… — Russell Baker
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac