White Quotes - Page 28

• I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how I saw the world. I was just like, some dads are whites and some moms are black. And that's how it is.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One day as a young man, I was walking down the streets. And a group of Zulu guys was walking behind me closing in on me. And I could hear them talking to one another about how they were going to mug me. (Speaking Zulu). Let's get this white guy. You go to his left, and I'll come up behind him. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't run.So I just spun around real quick and said (speaking Zulu). Yo, guys, why don't we just mug someone together? I'm ready.

  Trevor Noah

  Running, Real, Men

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  August, Years, Black

  Source: www.bellanaija.com

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• I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn't mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it's not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Mistake, Mean, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Reading, Thinking, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Thinking, Government, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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

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• The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Equal, African Women

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• The southern white Baptists now want to integrate with the black Baptist church. I say that would be the end of it. In the first place, most white southern Baptists can't preach, their intentions are not that good and we make a different joyful noise unto the Lord than white people. When we say, "Lord Jesus, personal savior", we may not mean the same thing as what they mean.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Jesus, Mean, People

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I don't expect that Albert Gore is going to become president, and I certainly hope we never see Tipper Gore in the White House. Can you imagine Tipper saying, "Just say no"?

  Frank Zappa

  House, President, Imagine

  Source: afka.net

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• There's such a craving to make Egypt white or Asian, people don't just even listen to you. When you explain why would anyone build anything as enduring as the Pyramids in Africa before they would build anything of that nature at home?

  John Henrik Clarke

  Home, Egypt, Pyramids

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I'm not anti-anything. I'm not anti-Jew or Gentile, I'm not anti-white, but I am pro-black. I am pro my people. And I love us so much that it gets on my nerves when we do stupid things.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Stupid, People, Black

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.

  Michelle Obama

  Dad, Holiday, Past

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

  Carrie Fisher

  Texas, Grandparent, Trash

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of being and meaning, or to say that God is a name denoting the ultimate mystery. I prefer the bold primitive colors of the Biblical way of describing God.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Philosophical, Biblical, Thinking

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'

  Debbie Reynolds

  Years, Dresses, Subway

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.

  John Guare

  Men, Color, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

  Bob Hawke

  Black And White, Mugabe, Mets

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• By the way, Santa just is white.

  Megyn Kelly

  Santa, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Since announcing his candidacy in June of 2015, Donald Trump morphed into a national phenomenon, captivating the country, dominating news cycles day in and day out and creating a white hot debate about our national media like nothing we have seen in a long, long time.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, June, Media

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Race, America

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

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• Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old.

  Malcolm X

  Children, Years, Plight

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me.

  Malcolm X

  Jail, People, Way

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.

  Malcolm X

  Country, People, Realizing

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

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