White people Quote by Coleman A. Young

“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.”

— Kiese Laymon

“I suppose my biggest frustration is that we as white people come into a culture and demand that the natives do things our way.…

— Tracie Peterson

“These white people don’t, and will never give a shit about us, so do what you got to do to survive in this society,…

— Desiree M. Granger

“At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that…

— Ayana Mathis

“White people can be so unself-conscious. It’s offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.”

— Barbara Browning

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Houses had the meanest set of white people in them. Pretty in their living but nasty in their ways.”

— Sarah E Wright

“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The world isn’t that black-and-white, is it? It doesn’t all boil down to with or against. Some of us just want to stay alive.”

— Victoria Schwab

“I don’t see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming…uncreative. You can’t make anything new. Everything already is what…

— Susan Meissner

“There aren't many white people around here, just us kids. Seventeen, eighteen years old and flushed with freedom, we don't care about fitting or…

— Jo Treggiari

“behaving like Europeans. Or if they are studying and encounter an obstacle, like needing money or failing an assignment, they often give up. When…

— Catherine Titasey