91 Quotes About Whites
- Author maya angelou
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Did he insult you? I mean us, the race?" "Not directly. Like most white racists, he was paternalistic. I would have preferred he slap me than that he talk down upon me. Then I could retaliate in kind.
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- Author maya angelou
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Although there is nothing amusing about racial discrimination, the oppressed find funny things to say about it. "The white folks are so prejudiced in my town, a colored person is not allowed to eat vanilla ice cream.
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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...Whuss de news?""Oh de white folks is still in de lead.
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- Author James McBride
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He ain't gonna live long, child. He's crazy. He thinks the n***ers's equal to the white man.
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- Author Harriet Ann Jacobs
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At the south, a gentleman can have a shoal of colored children without any disgrace, but if he is known to purchase them, with the view of setting them free, the example is thought to be dangerous to their "peculiar institution," and he becomes unpopular.
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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We Negroes in Eatonville know a number of things that the hustling, bustling white man never dreams of. He is a materialist with little care for overtones.
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- Author James McBride
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It made me a bit sad, truth be to tell it, to watch them hundreds of white folks crying for the Negro, for there weren't hardly ever any Negroes present at most of them gatherings, and them that was there was doodied up and quiet as a mouse. It seemed to me the whole business of the Negro's life out there weren't no different than it was out west, to my mind. It was like a big, long lynching. Everybody got to make a speech about the Negro but the Negro.
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- Author June Jordan
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The State Lay in wait Attica Attack Troopswearing maskscarrying gas cannistersand proud to be whiteproud to be doingwhat everyone canfor The Man
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- Author Langston Hughes
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That is no way to get Justice." "That is the way the Allies got it--breaking up Germany, breaking up Hiroshima, and everything in sight. But these white folks are more scared of Negroes in the U.S.A. than they ever was of Hitler....
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