White people Quote by Ibram X. Kendi Download Open image ““White people, apparently, were not responsible for their own racist mentalities.”” — Ibram X. Kendi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare White people
“dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. One watched the lives they led. One could not be fooled about… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“whites called in from around the country to say they were afraid to disagree with a black person for fear of being thought racist.” — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And” — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice—and I don’t say I’m blaming those that hold it.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“African-Americans are just as likely to harbor racist attitudes as white people.” — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“most probably consumed the racist ideas, distancing themselves from Black people.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racists confessing to their crimes is not in their self-interest.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“He liked to refer to his whiteness the way all white liberals did: only acknowledging it when he felt oppressed by it, otherwise pretending… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
“I pointed to a Black man standing nearby and said, "If I had said something up there on that stage today that was crazy,… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“assimilationists constantly encourage Black adoption of White cultural traits and/or physical ideals.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Hate and ignorance have not driven the history of racist ideas in America. Racist policies have driven the history of racist ideas in America.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“From the beginning, it has been a three-sided battle, a battle of antiracist ideas being pitted against two kinds of racist ideas at the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“newspaper reports of rape constructed white defendants as individual offenders and black defendants as representative of the failings of their racial group,” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump’s economic policies are geared toward enriching White male power—but at the expense of most of his White male followers, along with the… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“Racially discriminatory policies have usually sprung from economic, political, and cultural self-interests, self-interests that are constantly changing. Politicians seeking higher office have primarily created… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“The vicious housing cycle had already begun. Racist policies harmed Black neighborhoods, generating racist ideas that caused people not to want to live next… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“That one over this is the one for the use of the white people,” Judge Amistead Jones said. “Not that I am a stickler… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race… — Dwayne McDuffie Copy Share Image
“Just before we entered the gorge, we pulled into an eddy to fix an oarlock and I asked Dave Heckman, our leader, what the… — Tracy Johnston Copy Share Image
“Even at the tender age of twelve, when I knelt in front of the bishop for my confirmation, I had the sneaking suspicion that… — Megan Edwards Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
Some Republicans are good, and some Republicans are bad. Some Democrats are good, and some Democrats are bad. There are good police, and there… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
I think 'Dear White People,' the show, is a tremendous artistic achievement. It's always hinting that there is something beyond the pleading and wokeness,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, white people will come in to chastise us. But since we are no longer forsaken, and are the people of God,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
