Best White Quotes

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

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

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

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

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

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

Racism is America’s greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

When is black America going to forgive white America for slavery?

So, lively brisk old fellow, don’t let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.

I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, in a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

There’s a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn’t something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they’ve never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who’ll think he’s Tiger Woods.

Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley stretching for miles belowIs white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered with lighted snow.

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn’t make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It’s not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

Liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

White supremacy is so deep-seated that it’s hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.

It’s clear that he was incredibly courageous in his critique of white supremacy, wealth inequality, and imperial power as it relates to war in particular. But it’s easy to deodorize Martin King, to sanitize or sterilize him. And I simply want to reveal his radical love and his radical analysis as what they really were.

I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.