Best Whiteness Quotes

53 Whiteness quotes by 47 unique authors

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? — St. Jerome
If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would… — Eric Liu
At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness,… — Madeleine L'Engle
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its… — Therese of Lisieux
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a… — Toni Morrison
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not… — Michael Flynn
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier… — Audre Lorde
We studied our angels for a few moments more, looking at where we had lain side by side in that sweet, quiet moment. I wished… — Richelle Mead
I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. “I was at… — Janet Evanovich
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen… — Therese of Lisieux
But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that… — Charles Baudelaire
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from… — Tim Wise
The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds… — Virginia Woolf
When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is… — Lauren Oliver
In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue. — Ted Hughes
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was… — Jim Carroll
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their… — Arundhati Roy
Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness. — Earle Birney
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet… — Antonio Machado
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that… — Alice Walker
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently… — Tom Paulin
No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country… — Montel Williams
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. — William R. Alger

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