Complicated Quote by Rostam Batmanglij

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

— Rostam Batmanglij

Those who politically theorise the artificial concept of 'whiteness' infer that anyone who has white skin cannot escape their unconscious bias. If you object,…

— Claire Fox

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I've been wearing white since my college days. I like color, but if I wear colored clothes now, it would feel like I'm being…

— Gulzar

“Whiteness is not a kinship or a culture. White people are no more closely related to one another, genetically, that we are to black…

— Eula Biss

“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped by being…

— Robin DiAngelo

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

— Rachel Dolezal

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the…

— Dick Gregory

I don't think being white defines who I am.

— Paul Wall

Never have I once identified myself as white.

— Shaun King

I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.

— Lauren Southern

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that…

— Natasha Trethewey