Backgrounds Quote by Russell Banks

Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white.

— Anna Holmes

I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of…

— David James

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that…

— Randall Kennedy

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and…

— Sherman Alexie

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle…

— Walter Mosley

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

— Bryan Fuller

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and…

— Inga Muscio

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

— Spike Lee

What is it with all of these young, single white women? Overeducated- doesn't mean intelligent.

— Rush Limbaugh

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

— Malala Yousafzai

All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . . many of…

— Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin