White Man Quotes - Page 18

• As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Men, Years, Turkeys

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• I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Mean, Men

  Source: www.theroc.org

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• And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, White

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.551, Modern Library

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• ...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Black And White, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

  June Jordan

  Running, New York, Men

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

  June Jordan

  Men, White, Joy

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.129, Basic Books

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• Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

  Robin Williams

  Sports, Golf, Men

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• One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Religion, Christianity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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• Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Believe, Men, Emotional

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• White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, Europe, World

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• We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Home, Men, Cities

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• I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the genius of Ray Charles.' And after that everybody called him a genius. They didn't call him a genius before that though. He was a genius but they didn't call him that. ... If a white man hadn't told them, they wouldn't've seen it. ... Like, you know, they say Columbus discovered America, he didn't discover America.

  Gayl Jones

  Men, Discovery, America

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• Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to rot by white men, many, many hundreds of buffalo. ... Our hearts were like stones. And yet nobody believed, even then, that the white man could kill all the buffalo. Since the beginning of things there had always been so many!

  Pretty Shield

  Beautiful, Country, Heart

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• The Indian never hurts anything, but the white people destroy all ... How can the spirit of the earth like the white man? That is why God will upset the world - because it is sore all over. Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.

  Pretty Shield

  Hurt, Men, White

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• See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to.

  Chris Rock

  Men, White, Black

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• Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

  Chris Rock

  Zebras, Men, Giving

  "Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger - London, New York, Johannesburg". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Personality, Parent

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• I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: portside.org

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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• I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Men, Hair, Giving

  Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

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• There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Time, Mean, Men

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.37, Grove Press

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• Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get our own land and our own country in North America. When we separate from America and take maybe ten states, then we'll be free.

  Muhammad Ali

  Country, Men, Land

  "Playboy Interview: Muhammad Ali (Second Interview, 1975)". Interview with Lawrence Linderman, genius.com. November 1, 1975.

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• Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Men, Challenges, Vision

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• I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

  Margaret Walker

  Cancer, Believe, Heart

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

  Maureen Duffy

  Men, Black, World

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