Accusation Quote by John Ridley

I don't think any of us that are white can ever fully understand what it's like to be a black person in America today.

— Paula White

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

— Eddie Huang

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination…

— Newt Gingrich

“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in America who,…

— Nadia Owusu

If you're a black person in America, it's really hard to avoid being black. And what I mean is that the reality of your…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.

— Joy Reid

America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with…

— Amiri Baraka

Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Americans are as unlike any other white people in the world as it is possible to be. I do not think, for example, that…

— James Baldwin

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

— Kenya Barris

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

— Uzodinma Iweala