White Quotes

• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

  Eden Ahbez

  Love, Hater, Black And White

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• The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.

  Cornel West

  Party, Successful, Years

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.

  Barack Obama

  People, House, Political

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, Rights

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• Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

  Doris Lessing

  Black And White, Simple, Black White

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• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Lonely, Taken, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?

  Malcolm X

  Children, Hate, Teaching

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.248, Ballantine Books

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• The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Country, People, Justice

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

  James A. Baldwin

  World, Ethics, This World

  "This Lonesome Place" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2001.

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• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Race, America

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.347, Ballantine Books

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• You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Time, Jesus, Heart

  Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Ambition, Black

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• The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Creating, Space, Design

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• Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.

  Robert Frank

  Photography, Black And White, Color

  Sarah Greenough, Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, National Gallery of Art (U.S.) (1994). “Robert Frank”, Natl Gallery of Art

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• This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Fighting, Men, Winning

  "Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880".

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• The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Black, Truth Is

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.77, Lulu.com

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• Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Men, Animal, Blessing

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• A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  Tupac Shakur

  Mirrors, Self, Who I Am

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• White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jesus, Godly, People

  1971 Conversation with James Baldwin, London, 4 Nov. Collected in A Dialogue (1973).

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• There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Self, People

  Press Conference With the UK's Brown, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2008.

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• In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

  Paul Bettany

  Black And White, Becoming, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that.

  Paula Deen

  Media, Ties, Long

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• Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Strong, Black And White, Dramatic

  FaceBook post by Catherine Zeta-Jones from Jan 25, 2017

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.

  James H. Cone

  Long, Racism, People

  James H. Cone “Black Theology and Black Power”, Orbis Books

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