Calluses Quote by Henry David Thoreau

By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this…

— Malcolm X

“That is how they stay so white: by refusing to accept blemish or history. Whiteness isn't about being something, it is about being no…

— Mat Johnson

White is an attitude.

— Malcolm X

I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly…

— John Henrik Clarke

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“white people try to take blackness. pour it out rub it into their skin and wear us like they know what we about. but…

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls;…

— Herman Melville

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

“In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints…

— G.K. Chesterton

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

— William S. Paley

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm…

— Eminem

“Even though white is often associated with things, that are pleasant and pure, there is a peculiar emptiness about the color white. It is…

— Herman Melville