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Quotes About White

I never saw a true representation - an iconic hero - for myself. It just got boring, reading about all these really powerful and heroic white guys.
~ Salim Akil
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis' by JD Vance made me entirely rethink U.S. republicanism, Donald Trump and the American white working class.
~ David Lammy
I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
~ Sam Phillips
Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.
~ Amitava Kumar
Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
Trump's more outre economic ideas, like repealing trade bills and implementing a massive surcharge on imports, would seem like non-starters in a Republican-led House and Senate, except when you consider a second point as a kind of syllogism: Republicans fear their angry, white electorate. Their angry, white electorate chose Donald Trump.
~ Joy Reid
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
~ Jose Mujica
Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear—And he shows them pearly white—Just a jackknife has Macheath, dear—And he keeps it out of sight.
~ Bertolt Brecht
It was Christmas Eve. Big snowflakes fluttered slowly through the air like white feathers and made all of the Heavenly Valley smooth and white and quiet and beautiful. Tall fir trees stood up to their knees in snow and their outstretched hands were heaped with it. Those that were bare of leaves wore soft white fur on their scrawny, reaching arms and all the stumps and low bushes had been turned into fat white cupcakes.
~ Betty MacDonald
What is red, white and black all over and says "Ho! Ho!"? Santa Claus after he has came down the chimney.
~ Beverly Adams
Most of the White people I talk to either have not thought about their race and so don't feel anything, or have thought about it and felt guilt and shame. These feelings of guilty and shame are part of the hidden costs of racism.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Because Congress banned the Klan back in '71, the supremacists now call themselves rifle groups," she explained with disgust. "This one is known as the New Knights of the White Camelia.
~ Beverly Jenkins
rolls, the snow fell hard—hard—piling on
~ Bill Hayes
Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.
~ Guy de Maupassant
this very morning, an hour agone, he has mounted his white ass for the return journey to Vyones.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of — white trashII in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
And that's not all," she went on. "He's typing his memoirs. A man who can't scribble down a grocery list without consulting Strunk and White suddenly thinks he's an ex-president." They
~ Harlan Coben
Thorpe's office was decorated in Early American Douchebag, all white and chrome with a zebra-skin throw rug in the center
~ Harlan Coben
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.
~ Kathryn Stockett
Trump's America means many things, but this much is clear - it means toxic white masculinity is not just permitted, it's fully empowered - and getting worse.
~ Shaun King
No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.
~ Shaun King
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.
~ Irving Berlin