White America Quotes

27 White America quotes by 25 unique authors

The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his… — Malcolm X
You know when I played, you had me and Kevin (McHale) and some others throughout the league. I think it's good for a fan base… — Larry Bird
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people.… — Dennis Banks
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01. White America and the western world came to realize that people of color… — Jeremiah Wright
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… — Susan Sontag
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America. — Charles Hamilton Houston
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do. — Derrick Bell
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our… — Huey Newton
Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and… — Richard Lamm
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for… — Lee Daniels
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues. — Dwight Yoakam
Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people.… — Spike Lee
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America. — Anna Deavere Smith
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know? — Vanilla Ice
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and… — June Jordan
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. — Richard M. Nixon
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and… — Barack Obama
White America is in the minority. — Malcolm X
Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it. — Tim Wise
Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith. — Jim Webb
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. — Stokely Carmichael
Have you lost your mind? I mean, how is it that you can disrespect a mans ethnicity when you know we've influenced nearly every facet… — Cedric The Entertainer
White America, assassinate my character. Money matrimony, yeah, they tryna break the marriage up. Who gon act phonier? Who gon try to embarrass ya? Ima… — Kanye West

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