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Quotes About White

Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.
~ George Peele
Ears back, tail up! I got to show off the white tip on the end of my tail. It's the flag that all Shelties are proud of.
~ Sheron Long
There is no evidence that having been a good player (or being white and of conservative appearance) is an advantage for a soccer manager.
~ Simon Kuper
Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.
~ Mark Corrigan
I love Israel for its blue and white flag as it matches my legs.
~ Joan Rivers
This is not a pleasant April. Some mornings the air is so white and still you might expect a fall of snow, and at night the sky expands, as it does in December.
~ Mavis Gallant
I saw twelve angels wheeling in the sun, rays of white wings and gold light. "Swans!
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
white illogical hate and Black lack of power.
~ Maya Angelou
The mouth, opened to show the long teeth, was a dark room furnished with a few white chairs.
~ Maya Angelou
I'll believe in Liberals' aid for us When I see a white man load a Black man's gun.
~ Maya Angelou
I shuddered to think that while we wanted that flag dragged into the mud and sullied beyond repair, we also wanted it pristine, its white stripes, summer cloud white. Watching it wave in the breeze of a distance made us nearly choke with emotion. It lifted us up with its promise and broke our hearts with its denial.
~ Maya Angelou
I could see that some of the pink and white blossoms on the frangipani had been sent skittering across the courtyard, piling up against our front door, where they lay like inert ballerinas, their tutus deflated.
~ Meg Cabot
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.
~ bell hooks
While it has become "cool" for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.
~ bell hooks
consider the possibility that to love blackness is dangerous in a white supremacist culture- so threatening, so serious a breach in the fabric of the social order, that death is the punishment.
~ bell hooks
Of course many white people are comfortable with a rhetoric of race that suggests racism cannot be changed, that all white people are inherently racist simply because they are born and raised in this society. Such misguided thinking socializes white people both to remain ignorant of the way in which white supremacist attitudes are learned and to assume a posture of learned helplessness as though they have no agency - no capacity to resist this thinking.
~ bell hooks
Throughout American history, the racial imperialism of whites has supported the custom of scholars using the term "women" even if they are referring solely to the experience of white women.
~ bell hooks
Sexist discrimination has prevented white women from assuming the dominant role in the perpetuation of white racial imperialism, but it has not prevented white women from absorbing, supporting, and advocating racist ideology or acting individually as racist oppressors in various spheres of American life.
~ bell hooks
From the onset, reformist white women with class privilege were well aware that the power and freedom they wanted was the freedom they perceived men of their class enjoying.
~ bell hooks
From certain standpoints, to travel is to encounter the terrorizing force of white supremacy.
~ bell hooks
Sexist discrimination has prevented white women from assuming the dominant role in the perpetuation of white racial imperialism , but it has not prevented white from absorbing, supporting, and advocating racist ideology or acting individually as racist oppressors in various spheres of American life.
~ bell hooks
He had his own YouTube channel and a track available on iTunes. That sort of life profile carries a lot of cultural capital in a room full of middle-class white people in a permanent state of agony over their privilege.
~ Ben Elton
why should he carry the burden of representation when it will only hold him back? white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race
~ Bernadine evaristo
One comes across white men occasionally who suffer under the delusion that China is not a civilized country. Such men have forgotten what constitutes civilization.
~ Bertrand Russell