White Quotes - Page 19

• It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.

  Malcolm X

  Attitude, Eye, Dark

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, Class

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Leader, Presses

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• [Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this.

  Malcolm X

  Leader, Allies, Needs

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession.

  Malcolm X

  Government, Behind The Scenes, Sides

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

  Roxane Gay

  Character, Race, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

  Ray Dalio

  Eye, Black And White, Two

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, Way, Connected

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am more likely to get paid for my art if it's presented alongside a white artist, so the questions around value and agency arise: What choices should I make, or do I have to make, if I want to be compensated for my work? Why isn't my art valued on its own?

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, Agency, Choices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

  Gloria Calderon Kellett

  Husband, Children, Men

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Most of what we see are white people.

  Arthur Jafa

  People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm going to live in the White House with my family.

  Donald Trump

  House, My Family, White House

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

  David Remnick

  Class, Working Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We have zero strategic thinking out of our White House. And we have a national security structure that has lost its way when it comes to strategic thinking and strategic decision-making.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Zero, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Library, Energy

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• The one thing that we discussed was whether or not we want to move the initial press conferences in the EOB, which, by the way, is the White House. So no one is moving out of the White House.

  Reince Priebus

  Moving, House, Way

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about.

  Reince Priebus

  Country, Talking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The repealing and replacing of Obamacare is very complicated. It is what a White House and congressional leadership, serious White House and serious congressional leadership, should meet on and work on and figure out a strategy of, and it may work and it may not. Obviously not every administration gets things through, even when they have much larger majorities in congress and a much larger popular vote than Donald Trump had.

  William Kristol

  Obamacare, Popular Vote, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Boys, Rights

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.

  Barack Obama

  Years, America, Support

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Views, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• When we were working on immigration reform and there was a young Latino man, young immigration activist here who, in the Roosevelt Room, refused to shake my hand.He made a point of saying, "I can't shake your hand; you're deporting too many people." And I just said to him, "Young man, I'm glad that you feel so passionately about this issue, but you're with the president right now in the White House. You've got to think about what's going to be most effective in getting what you need, what you're trying to accomplish. Because this may not be your best strategy."

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some of this range in color is the legacy of white supremacy.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Reality, Color, Historical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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