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255 White People quotes by 171 unique authors

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for… — Bela Fleck
But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other… — Glenn Reynolds
What I know about this world is white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where… — Vernon Jordan
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they… — James Weldon Johnson
Many of the white people [who] have been instruments in the hands of God for our good, even such as have held us in captivity,… — Richard Allen
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means… — James H. Cone
I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many… — Jupiter Hammon
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes… — Zebulon Pike
I was mad when I heard The Amazing Race wasn't about white people. — Zach Braff
I don't think that other races are inferior, I just think that there's something special about white people. Sometimes, when I think about all the… — Zach Braff
Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice. — Harry J. Anslinger
Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence,… — Beverly Daniel Tatum
White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others. — Beverly Daniel Tatum
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our… — Sitting Bull
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition… — Will Smith
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor… — Wilbur Smith
Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs. — Sarah Schulman
When a black person has no electricity, no water, they call it the ghetto. When white people have no electricity and no water, they call… — Carlos Mencia
When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called rappers — Carlos Mencia
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or… — Dwayne McDuffie
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white.… — Jane Elliott
Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I've heard educated white people say, 'slavery was 400 years ago.' No… — Louis C. K.
If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate… — Malcolm X
When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if… — Joseph Bruchac

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