White People Quotes

255 quotes by 181 authors

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
Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white… — Eden Ahbez
My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act,… — Jo Brand
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael
Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is… — Stokely Carmichael
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
This problem with illegal immigration is nothing new. In fact, the Indians had a special name for it. They called it "white people." — Jay Leno
I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time… — Shirley Chisholm
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are… — Langston Hughes
The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them. — James Weldon Johnson
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still… — Jonathan Lethem
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred… — Malcolm X
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know… — Malcolm X
Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle… — Malcolm X
Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group. — Charles Barkley
When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they… — Cynthia Nixon
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the… — David Lammy
The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too. — Quanah Parker
White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. — Nikki Giovanni

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