American Quote by Hari Kondabolu

If you are friends with someone, and you're like 'Hey, what ethnicity are you,' that's cool. But you wouldn't walk up to a white…

— Arden Cho

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little…

— Tracy Morgan

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

“Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a…

— Noel Ignatiev

There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're black, or…

— Celeste Ng

“I was successful and acceptable and loved because I was—and still am—great at negotiating with whiteness. But that means my white friends often mistakenly…

— Sherman Alexie

In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be…

— Nell Irvin Painter

I have an upfront, sort of in-the-trenches knowledge of white people's trying to avoid their whiteness and replace it with something else. When I…

— W. Kamau Bell

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

— Robin DiAngelo

We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several…

— Nell Irvin Painter

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

Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had…

— Cornel West