Black Quote by Roxane Gay

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so…

— Roxane Gay

There's this sense that whiteness is the default and does not need to be questioned. That you've got a race if you're black, or…

— Celeste Ng

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

— Roxane Gay

If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my original thought,…

— Gregg Popovich

We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes,…

— Paule Marshall

“Enlightenment ideas gave legitimacy to this long-held racist “partiality,” the connection between lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand, and between darkness…

— Ibram X. Kendi

I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most vicious resistance…

— Michael Eric Dyson

You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:…

— Pablo Neruda

“Whiteness is an advantage and privilege because you have made it so, not because the universe demands it.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“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

The Nazis played the same games against Jews that today’s left plays against 'Eurocentrism,' 'whiteness,' and 'logocentrism.' When you hear a campus radical denounce…

— Anonymous