White Man Quotes

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

Indians chase the vision, white men chase the dollar.

White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.

Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

The white men in our colonies are too frequently the savages

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

White men in North America are the beneficiaries of the single biggest affirmative action program in world history. It's called world history.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here and took it away, took it away and replaced it.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.