Christ Quote by John Henrik Clarke

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise

“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

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

— Henry David Thoreau

“figure of the ideal Aryan, with blond hair and blue eyes – hair the colour of the sun, eyes the colour of the sky.…

— Richard Dyer

“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

— Megyn Kelly

“White is not a mere absence of color; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. God…

— G.K. Chesterton

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

— Fra Angelico

May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.

— Michael Jackson

What we're seeing is a backlash against any attempt, whether from the world of scholarship or popular culture, to paint non-white people back into…

— David Olusoga

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we…

— Langston Hughes