674 Quotes About White


  • Author Allen West
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    Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

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  • Author Alice Walker
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    Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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  • Author Brian Williams
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    In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

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  • Author Cornel West
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    Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

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  • Author Cornel West
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    Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content.

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  • Author Cornel West
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    There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we black folk tend to be much more sensitive about embracing others, and we have a long history of that.

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  • Author Derek Walcott
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    Slowly my body grows a single sound, slowly I become a bell, an oval, disembodied vowel, I grow, an owl, an aureole, white fire poesia "Metamorfosi, I. Luna

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  • Author Ethel Waters
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    There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

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