Close friends Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

Behaviors and lifestyles that are classified as "normal" rarely get so generalized, public perception of heterosexual relationships, for instance, or of the "white" experience,…

— Melissa Febos

Far as I'm concerned, friendship between black and white don't mean that much 'cause it usually ain't on a equal basis. ... Maybe one…

— Mildred D. Taylor

The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less…

— Phoebe Robinson

Some of my best friends are white.

— Rick Ross

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.

— Dorothy Parker

White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so…

— Justin Simien

I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized.

— GRiZ

Most of my friends were white. I grew up really the only minority in my school, along with my sister.

— Lee Isaac Chung

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did,…

— Alice Walker

I was blessed to have a family that accepted my sexuality, which I am painfully aware is not the norm.

— Ariana DeBose

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe.…

— James A. Baldwin

I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving…

— Jess C Scott