White Person Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. — Malcolm X
The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and… — Scott Woods
There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate… — Lauryn Hill
I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one… — Kanye West
I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would… — Rosa Parks
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need… — Clarence Thomas
A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm… — Bill Cosby
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just… — Charles Barron
The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person... — Barack Obama
As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not… — Peggy McIntosh
I am not asking you as a white person to see yourself as an enslaver. I'm asking you as an American to see all of… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the… — Sylvia Plath
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
[My grandmother] is a typical white person. — Barack Obama
If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly. — Mamie Till
It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance. — Zach Braff
Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people… — Eileen O'Brien
"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one… — Kanye West
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the… — Majora Carter
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys,… — Bobby Seale

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