People Quote by Jean Rhys Download Open image “They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.” — Jean Rhys ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Close Ranks People Racism Ranks White Say Trouble Trouble Trouble Comes White White people
“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band. (...) The… — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble. — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and… — Billy Gibbons Copy Share Image
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
When Trump was elected, it gave white men - particularly white men in power - full, unfettered permission to say or do whatever they… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing. — Rosa Parks 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
Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it's wrong to say that they are wholy cruel - it's a deformed view. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“THe room was large and low-ceilinged, the striped wallpaper faded to inoffensiveness. A huge dark wardrobe faced a huge dark bed. The rest of… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“But in the daytime it was all right. And when you'd had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“She spent the foggy day in endless, aimless walking, for it seemed to her that if she moved quickly enough she would escape the… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
