White Person Quotes
39 quotes by 35 authors
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It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism.
— Malcolm X
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[My grandmother] is a typical white person.
— Barack Obama
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If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.
— Mamie Till
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It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.
— Zach Braff
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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
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"[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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These White Person Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 39 White Person Quotes, led by these top contributors: