White America Quotes
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America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
Country music originates with the colloquial, rural aspects of white America. It's really, truly, rural white America's blues.
— Dwight Yoakam
We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man.
— John Oliver Killens
I don't believe there's a white man in this country, baby, who can get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.
— James Baldwin
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
— Theodore White
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
— Richard Pryor
Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.
— Karl Marx
I don't see no black and white couples in England or America walking around proud holding their children and going out.
— Muhammad Ali
They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.
— Frankie Boyle
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
— Barry White
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
— John Clellon Holmes
Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
— Coretta Scott King
Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.
— DaShanne Stokes
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
— William Allen White
I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room.
— Louise Erdrich
Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.
— Kathleen Sebelius
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
— Henry Louis Gates
Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.
— Mickey Drexler
America was the attic of French culture.
— Edmund White
Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?
— Red Buttons
What does America love more than one white male?
— Paul Mooney
I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
— Theodore White
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
— Anna Deavere Smith
Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.
— Werley Nortreus
This was a man who didn't see it coming . . . he WAS it coming, and without him, white America, you would not look or act or think the way you do.
— Bruce Springsteen
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Black America Has Allowed Itself to Be Used by Race-Baiters and White Liberal Elitists
— Amy Ridenour
in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
Educational system in America is not as good as in China. You may be an idiot. It is hard to tell with you white people.
— Kate Danley
Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life.
— Ezra Koenig
Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.
— William Allen White
The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.
— Claire McCaskill
In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.
— Juan Williams
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
I always carried a small American flag red white and blue with me so people would know I was from America.
— George Foreman
So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.
— Robert Plant
They walked off down the hall in the direction of a sign that said Colored Waiting Room. Billie guessed white folks didn't have to wait.
— Elaine Hussey
The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.
— Jonathan Davis
This world that we live in would be perfect if there were less prejudice and people who think they are better than others.
— Werley Nortreus
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?
— E.B. White
White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.
— Michael Kimmel
No black or white America-just United States of America.
— Barack Obama
King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America - even though the white press attempted to do so.
— Cornel West
But if America falters in greatness and purpose, than Americans are nothing but the offscourings and hungry of other lands.
— Theodore H. White
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
— Raquel Cepeda
Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.
— Dick Gregory
Only Jack has remarked on the irony that America is going to war against a white supremacist enemy with a segregated American army.
— Michael Grant
Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.
— Richard M. Nixon
If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.
— Toni Morrison
The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.
— Rudy Giuliani
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
— Theodore White
Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques.
— Victor LaValle
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.
— John Oliver Killens
Black power is organizing the rage of Black people and putting new hard questions and demands to white America.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
Our fight against racism should not be a matter of black and white, but good and evil.
— Kathy McClary
It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.
— James Weldon Johnson
White America is in the minority.
— Malcolm X
I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.
— America Ferrera
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply Ours.
— Vine Deloria Jr.
America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
— Vanilla Ice
It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.
— Mel White
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
— Derrick Bell
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
— Stokely Carmichael
The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.
— Theodore White
The only thing white about me is the skin I'm wearing.
— Randolph Randy Camp
There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
— George Lopez
America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.
— Theodore White