White America Quotes
27 White America quotes by 25 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
— Derrick Bell
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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
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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
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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
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Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
— John Lahr
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Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
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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
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Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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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
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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
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Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
— Richard M. Nixon
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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
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White America is in the minority.
— Malcolm X
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Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.
— Tim Wise
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Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.
— Jim Webb
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Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
— Stokely Carmichael
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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
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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
Who Wrote These White America Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 White America Quotes as follows: