Best White People Proverbs
255 White People quotes by 171 unique authors
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The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place…
— Dee Brown
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Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems, you…
— Kathryn Stockett
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Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.
— Kathryn Stockett
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Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?"…
— Kathryn Stockett
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There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that *they*…
— James A. Baldwin
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Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.
— Junot Diaz
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men…
— Audre Lorde
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I want a lot of people to see my movies. More black people. More white people. I want to make that connection.
— Tyler Perry
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It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
— bell hooks
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Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a…
— Chris Rock
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
— Malcolm X
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A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints…
— William Eggleston
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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners…
— Benjamin E. Mays
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not…
— Randall Kennedy
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that…
— Albert Murray
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Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror…
— Maya Angelou
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There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that Hispanic people have…
— Don Lemon
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like…
— Bobby Fischer
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If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.
— Tim Wise
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Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the…
— Tim Wise
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I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of…
— Myles Munroe
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I want the white people to understand my people.
— Chief Joseph
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
— James Rado
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people…
— James Weldon Johnson
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People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say…
— Rihanna
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