Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Whiteness. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Whiteness Quotes And Sayings by 98 Authors including Leonard Michaels,Sergei Lukyanenko,Mark Twain,David Roediger,John Paul Caponigro for you to enjoy and share.
Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.
Where there's black, even grey looks white,
Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.
Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.
When I have White, I win because I am white; When I have Black, I win because I am Bogolyubov
You can't get much whiter than me.
Our entire being is nourished by color.
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.
When it comes to things such as sugar and rice, most people believe that brown is superior to white. But when it comes to human beings, they believe that the opposite is true.
No matter how much time I spend here I can't escape the whiteness of my skin, the way I stand out no matter what I do. But it's more than my skin. It's my privilege.
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.
A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
All my lies are white
Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.
Her skin was white as leprosy.
We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.
When all you have to look at is white, given time you will see a symphony in shades of pale.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death
White can be attained by blending all the colors of the spectrum together, or through the substraction of ink and all other pigments. In short, it is "all colors" and "no color" at the same time.
When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"
THE COLOR OF CHRIST
White is not always light and black is not always dark.
Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.
We can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We've got to make them happen. Nothing's going to fall in our laps. That only happens to beautiful white people.
The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black.
I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white'.
White." He spoke with conviction and I knew he'd seen. "A thousand shades of white, from mist to snow to starlight.
White! he turned as white as a woman.
Human beings are not black and white.
The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.
Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.
It is white. - when asked what the White house was like by a student in East London
Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.
Black implies white self implies other
Nothing is better for being Eternal
Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.
Nothing is black or white.
If you're from Africa, why are you white?
He says black, I say white and we do grey
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees.
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
White pussy is nothin but trouble.
The dephness of my skin is heriditory.
the hugh of my skin is what defines me.
the color of my skin is what God gave me.
for the radience of my skin, I am not ashamed.
yes, i am black, dark and beautiful.
and underneath this mask,
i feel comfortable in my own skin.
White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.
All is race - there is no other truth.
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, "white people" would cease to exist for want of reasons. There
Her white skin and those dark brown eyes and the way she always smiled at the world - always, it seemed - as if her face had been designed that way. The smile never went away.
He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.
There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.
The whole white world is ours.
White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes the light, which is also white, then the shadow is created, the apparition.
As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
Black and white is refuge of colors from their own nullity.
White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
Race ain't nothing but a number.
I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.
I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.
In Black Like Me, I tried to establish one simple fact, which was to reveal the insanity of a situation where a man is judged by his skin color, by his philosophical "accident" - rather than by who he is in his humanity.
Black and white has more emotion.
Color is the first revelation of the world.
Black is beautiful .Black isn't power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don't know and you ain't got no dough, you can't go and that's for sho'.
If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
Now I don't usually call people 'white'. Because pale is the word, isn't it? But this particular man, his hand is white. Not pale, but white.
only white, his hair braided. He eschewed
Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.
I am dark but fair, / Black but fair.
In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are all brand-new hardcovers - no germy secondhand softcovers for me. They come to me from Outside, decontaminated and vacuum-sealed in plastic wrap. I
What is stronger that color and sweeter that honey is the love of the human race
I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.'
White women love me 'cause of my edge. And I love white women.
The people who must believe they are white can never by your measuring stick.
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
Every person has their own colour.
The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.
A white skin is the greatest blessing that has been enjoyed on American soil.
Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you.
Love is the white light of emotion.
All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.
Frightfully pale and perpetually odd
Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.
Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.
Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.
Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.
Colour is a matter of personal opinion.
White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.
When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.
We white folks cling to such an abiding sense of entitlement that when things go amiss, we cannot let go of this tortuously sunny, idiotically cheerful doppelganger of a world that we deserve in which life is swell.
Here's a helpful life tip. Stand by things that are white cuz it makes you look less white.