White people Quote by Debby Irving Download Open image ““WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP WITH WHITE PEOPLE?”” — Debby Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare White people
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“White people can be so unself-conscious. It’s offensive, charming, and pathetic, all at the same time.” — Barbara Browning Copy Share Image
“But when whites ask me The Question, it's just a reminder that I'm not like them, I don't look like them, which must mean… — Michele Serros Copy Share Image
“Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.” — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
“You know how white people do, they just encourage and cheer anybody who lets it all hang out and just don't give a fuck.” — Tiffany Haddish Copy Share Image
“I am not out to destroy all the white race — only a small part of it: myself.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Only a small part of reality, for a human being, is what is actually going on; the greater part is what he imagines in… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the English-only acts… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Shifting from a superior/inferior paradigm to a strength-in-difference paradigm was kind of a good news/bad news situation. On the downside, I had to admit… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Any cycle that traps someone in a state of perpetual disadvantage is the real issue for the person experiencing it.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Eduardo Bonilla-Silva comments: “[The] melting pot never included people of color. Blacks, Chinese, Puerto Ricans, et cetera, could not melt into the pot. They… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Choosing to engage in the effort to dismantle racism promises to bring with it discomfort, yet how can I compare my discomfort to what… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Racism demands an artificial and divisive construction of humanity, in terms of how I make sense of others and also how I envision myself.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“Understanding whiteness, regardless of class, is key to understanding racism.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“I now understand that acting like a white American wasn’t just a “When in Rome do as the Romans do” cultural sensibility, but a… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard it said that conversations are the way human beings think together.” — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“If there’s a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when… — Debby Irving Copy Share Image
“That one over this is the one for the use of the white people,” Judge Amistead Jones said. “Not that I am a stickler… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
“Just before we entered the gorge, we pulled into an eddy to fix an oarlock and I asked Dave Heckman, our leader, what the… — Tracy Johnston Copy Share Image
“Even at the tender age of twelve, when I knelt in front of the bishop for my confirmation, I had the sneaking suspicion that… — Megan Edwards Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
Some Republicans are good, and some Republicans are bad. Some Democrats are good, and some Democrats are bad. There are good police, and there… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, white people will come in to chastise us. But since we are no longer forsaken, and are the people of God,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
