White People Quotes

We white people think that we know everything.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

Everyone knows how we white people feel, the glorified Mammy figure who dedicates her whole life to a white family. Margaret Mitchell covered that. But no one ever asked Mammy how she felt about it.

Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who sleep under the fluffy white comforter of belief.

I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black person in the world or is he the blackest white person in the world?"

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

Not all white people are bad.

Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference.

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.

There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.

A lot of wars are fought between black and whites daily in America. But if it's something I want to be with, the people who started it were black, I wouldn't not get in it.

Malcolm X got famous mainly by being hard on white people, white devils, blue-eyed blond-headed dogs.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

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.

Just like "All American" means "White, " "All Lives" means "White.

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it.

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.