Quotes of: Whiteness Keyword

In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and never seen.

Janine di Giovanni

He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.

Jupiter Hammon

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Janis Joplin

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

Jesse Jackson

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

James Joyce

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

John F. Kennedy

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.

Jonathan Kozol

I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

Jack LaLanne

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Kanye West

Max Cherry: Is white guilt supposed to make me forget that I run a business?

Jackie Brown

People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.

Chuck D

The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.

David Moranis

'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

Mark Hoppus

[talking about the white men coming] Kicking Bird: How many? John Dunbar: Like the stars.

Dances with Wolves

Musician: Whaaats the trooouble? Raoul Duke: Weeeellll, all this white stuff on my sleeeeve, iiiis LSD...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Margaret Bourke-White: [to Gandhi] You're the only man I know who makes his own clothes.

Gandhi

Nobody: [after a mobster shoots his pigeon] Stupid fuckin' white man!

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Mayor: You're a magnificent cunt. Madeliene White: [smiles condescendingly] Thank you.

Inside Man

Jem: Atticus says cheating a black man is ten times worse than cheating a white.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Jason: You don't look like a criminal. Jonathan Mardukas: I'm a white-collar criminal.

Midnight Run

Mr. White: If you shoot this man, you die next. Repeat. If you shoot this man, you die next.

Reservoir Dogs