Grasshoppers Quote by Dee Brown

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and…

— Billy Gibbons

“The white mobs followed blacks into the surrounding forests and marshes and shot many victims in the back as they fled. Several bodies were…

— E.R. Bills

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they…

— Maya Angelou

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the…

— Cleve Jones

“Two whole continents, North America and Australia, had been made virtually as white in blood as the European motherland; two other continents, South America…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.

— Ethel Waters

I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah.…

— Richard Benjamin

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get…

— Rosa Parks

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away…

— Hank Aaron

I had no expectations of white people at all.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

People hurried past, the others of the street, endless anonymous, twenty-one lives per second, race-walking in their faces and pigments, sprays of fleetest being.

— Don DeLillo