White Men Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“aggressive hypersexual African femininity. Such portrayals served both to exonerate White men of their inhuman rapes and to mask their human attractions to the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of…

— Audre Lorde

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in…

— Doris Lessing

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other…

— Gail Collins

“The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.”

— Susan Straight

“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual,…

— Justine Larbalestier

“The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“They began to care less about the way they looked, the way they dressed, the things they did; presently, one found them in twos…

— James Baldwin

“The relation between the white and black races in Africa in many ways resembles the relation between the two sexes. If the one of…

— Karen Blixen

“I think of the added pressures that black men have when making love because they feel that they are expected to perform in some…

— Jennifer Lee