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White Quotes by Toni Morrison
- What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.
- American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
- If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very,…
- A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.
- In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
- No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound…
- When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- 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
- It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands… — Michele Bachmann
- I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently… — Josephine Baker
- 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