First time Quote by Dennis Haysbert

If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race,…

— Tim Wise

That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as…

— Malcolm X

As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but…

— Robin DiAngelo

Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to…

— David Roediger

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started…

— Sadiq Khan

We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know as history…

— Paterson Joseph

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even…

— Brian K. Vaughan

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so…

— Roxane Gay

Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.

— Merle Woo

I think that white people were, no question, the creators of what we call white America.

— David Duke

White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams