Contemporary Quote by N. Scott Momaday

I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American.

— David Sirota

To some Americans, there was no possible way I could naturally be the daughter of this white American; I had to be from someplace…

— Alex Wagner

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous

Well, as a native, as a colonized people you do live in the in between. The thing is I'm native. But necessarily because I'm…

— Sherman Alexie

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food,…

— Booker T. Washington

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

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning…

— Maya Angelou

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me…

— Erich von Stroheim

“I now understand that acting like a white American wasn’t just a “When in Rome do as the Romans do” cultural sensibility, but a…

— Debby Irving

“In the 1940s a white American man wrote about the sacred myths of other cultures. He decided he knew what they meant better than…

— Drew Jacob

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