Atlanta Quote by Tayari Jones

“Every white person in this country-and I do not care what he or she says-knows one thing. They may not know, as they put,…

— James Baldwin

“I know what it’s like to be different. I’m a Native American in a white world.”

— Tamara Hoffa

“I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.”

— Michael Jordan

“Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or…

— Laura Yes Yes

“There’s nothing wrong with white people. They just ain’t black.”

— Ken Follett

“But when whites ask me The Question, it's just a reminder that I'm not like them, I don't look like them, which must mean…

— Michele Serros

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

— Kathryn Stockett

“There aren't many white people around here, just us kids. Seventeen, eighteen years old and flushed with freedom, we don't care about fitting or…

— Jo Treggiari

“You have to understand that not everything in the world is black and white.”

— Cat Clarke

“when you say race doesn’t matter all I hear is you dismissing what I’ve felt, what I’ve lived, what it’s like to be put…

— Jodi Picoult

“Blacks and whites in the South have had to learn to live together in a new way. Up north, they're getting acquainted for the…

— Herman E. Talmadge

“My grandfather said white people can't exist without speaking. He said they're all just imitations of each other, so it's like they have to…

— Jessica Anthony