White Folks Quotes

44 quotes by 39 authors

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie… — John Henrik Clarke
How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? . . . Twelve white men say a… — Ulysses S. Grant
To solve the new century's mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But… — Van Jones
It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year,… — Barack Obama
White folks' greed runs a world in need. — Jeremiah Wright
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ...… — Al Sharpton
Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.… — Eva Paterson
Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who… — Bernice L. McFadden
I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to… — Howard Dean
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early… — Benjamin E. Mays
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. — August Wilson
There wonâ€™t be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there wonâ€™t be any more white folks… — Tim Wise
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there. — Son House
We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em. — Miles Davis
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they… — Bell Hooks
All B.S. aside, it all comes down to... we got to survive. I mean, even warriors put their spears down on Sundays. We got to… — Tupac Shakur
White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here… — Margaret Walker
I live to harass white folks. — Derrick Bell
Dealing with race is about educating white folks. — Howard Dean
White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a… — Tom Robbins

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