Book Quote by Junot Diaz

“That's just another privilege for white people, they're allowed to fuck up and they still get the credit and encouragement, especially all these white…

— Michele Serros

“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic…

— bell hooks

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when…

— James Baldwin

I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply puts down…

— Peter Moskos

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done,…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

And I think for a man whose native tongue is Spanish to be able to put together a phrase like 'cultural genocide' just speaks…

— Robert Downey, Jr

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

— Greg Proops

I hope [white brothers and sisters] read this book [Tears we cannot stop] and engage with it, but other white people have a better…

— Michael Eric Dyson

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic gangster culture has become the fashion. Black and white, boy and girl…

— David Starkey

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.

— bell hooks

I heard about the book and I said, 'Oh my god, I've got to read this book,' and I didn't know that a white…

— Viola Davis