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255 White People quotes by 171 unique authors

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't… — Richard Pryor
Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to. — Chris Rock
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and… — Jerry Saltz
To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. — Nina Simone
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people… — Barbara Smith
I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of… — Clarence Thomas
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. — Strom Thurmond
For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is… — Desmond Tutu
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos… — Alice Walker
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We… — Marlon Wayans
Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear… — Kanye West
Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. — Juan Williams
Voting is a Constitutional right. Absent any evidence of fraud, all Americans have a protected right to vote, be they rich or poor, black, Hispanic… — Juan Williams
They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. — Jean Rhys
The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature… — Barack Obama
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless… — Sue Monk Kidd
Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But… — Kathryn Stockett
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will… — Robert Kirkman
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that… — Bell Hooks
The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door… — Tupac Shakur
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not… — Bell Hooks
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized… — James A. Baldwin
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but… — Winona LaDuke
Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians… — Sherman Alexie
White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which… — James A. Baldwin

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