White Man Quotes - Page 17

• The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

  Alice Walker

  Money, Men, White

  The Color Purple (1982)

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• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  Gabrielle Union

  Men, Race, Asian

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• White men have screwed this country up! I would like a black, female…. everything all rolled into one.I want something different. I want a real change. People, I want a president who speaks well, who has a sense of humor. This guy is such a moron! It's beyond the point where it's a joke. He's an idiot.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Real, Men

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• This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

  Barack Obama

  Son, Men, Source

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.414, Broadway Books

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• That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.

  Steve Toltz

  War, Stupid, Home

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Ocean, Men, Black

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.19, University of Illinois Press

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• One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Air, Dust

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

  Frantz Fanon

  Teacher, Philosophy, Intelligent

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• Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

  Dave Barry

  Native American, Men, Mutual Benefit

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.12, Ballantine Books

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• Stupid f***ing white man.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stupid, Men, White

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• The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Clever, Fall

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Things Fall Apart: Authoritative Text, Contexts and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Men, Fire

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• I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Race, Law

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• ...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.

  Fanny Kemble

  Men, Race, Fusion

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.14

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• When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  Country, War, Men

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

  Christina Stead

  Men, Colonialism, Degenerates

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.143, Head of Zeus

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

  Marita Golden

  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• People in America worship money, and a white man's face on a green piece of paper does not make me wealthy. My health makes me wealthy. I used to work at a hospital, so I know the real deal.

  Paul Mooney

  Real, Men, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dog, Gun, Boys

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

  Ice T

  Writing, Men, Rapper

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal record, which is to say that race is actually a bigger factor than ex-felon status. But if you're both, it's almost impossible to find a job.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Jobs, Men, Race

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that.

  Deepa Mehta

  Sorry, Men, India

  Source: collider.com

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• I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.

  Herman Melville

  Sorry, Hate, Men

  Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.415, Northwestern University Press

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• Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination.

  Bell Hooks

  Sex, Men, Political

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