Black people Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different: it put you in a wonder.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I am not out to destroy all the white race — only a small part of it: myself.”

— Charles Bukowski

“A course we different! Everybody know colored people and white people ain't the same. But we still just people.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“WHY DO I ALWAYS END UP WITH WHITE PEOPLE?”

— Debby Irving

“In the Community everything was black and white. Here, romantic relationships took on shades of grey; they were full of uncertainty, maybes, broken promises.”

— Claire Merle

“The world saw me as colored, but I didn't spend my life looking at myself. I spent my life looking at other people. I…

— Trevor Noah, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“The thing to remeber is that more than anything in this world, these colored people wish they were white.”

— David Sedaris

“So, what brings you to this wonderful world of white?”

— Hannah McCoy

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Everything around me was so starkly white that I began to believe that I would turn white sooner or later. I was quietly being…

— Nikesh Shukla

“The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And”

— Malcolm X

“Life turns to be colorless when people you trust the most ignore in times of sorrow.”

— Srinivas Shenoy