W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.”
“White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.”
“White supremacy is not a human right, it's a human rights violation.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“White supremacy is not a human right, it's a human rights violation, and by allowing a school to keep black history out of their curriculum, a government only perpetuates white supremacy, hence it perpetuates a human rights violation.”
Source: Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society
“White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.”
“White supremacy is persistent, but so are we.”
Source: You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
“White supremacy is so deep-seated that it's hard to see it eliminated. But we could definitely push it back.”
“White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.”
“White supremacy, whether in the US or Europe, is absolutely patriarchal—those far-right parties offer no gender equality...white women who vote for those parties are examples of women who accept crumbs thrown to them in return for limited power in the form of protection and privilege gained via proximity to powerful white men. They whip up xenophobia among white women voters by pitting immigrants against white families, portraying refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants as a drain on resources that should go instead to those white families. They want white women to have more white babies.”
Source: The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
“White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.”
“White voters were 72 percent of the electorate in 2012, and their share of the population has shrunk a couple points since then. [Donald] Trump has had trouble winning certain segments of the white vote, such as suburban women and college-educated voters.”
“White wasn't better, it turned out, or smarter. Just richer. Still richer. Always richer.”
Source: South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir
“white ways are
the way of death
come into the
Black
and live”
Source: Good News About the Earth
“White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.”
“White wing'd angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life.”
“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups or any group defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.”
“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.”
“White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.”
“White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both women and people of color and we are always seen and treated as such.”
Source: White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
“White women have a black belt in the fake smile.”
Source: In My Arrogant Opinion
“White women have a right to be angry about sexual violence. Survivors have a right to spaces without abusers. All survivors fantasise about revenge. But whose bodies are forfeit when white women mobilise punitive state and institutional power to achieve it? Who are the real casualties of the white feminist war machine?”
Source: Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism
“White women have known from the beginning in this country that they possess this power, the power to activate white supremacy and spur it to extreme violence... The activation of white terror is a white woman's soft power... We like to masculinize white supremacy, to presume it reeks of testosterone, when in fact, it is just as likely to be spritzed by perfume.”
Source: The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
“White women wanted parity with white men at any cost, including by avidly taking on the domination of Black and Brown people. As white feminists have progressed within their societies, and began to occupy increasingly important positions, they're constructing a feminism that uses the lives of Black and Brown people as arenas in which they can prove their credentials to white men.”
Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
“White women who suffer from mental illness are depicted as idle, spoiled, or just plain hysterical. Black men are demonized and pathologized. Black women with psychological problems are certainly not seen as geniuses; we are generally not labeled ‘hysterical’ or ‘eccentric’ or even ‘pathological’. When a black woman suffers from a mental disorder, the overwhelming opinion is that she is weak. And weakness in black women is intolerable.”
Source: Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“White women will heap praise on my words calling for the destruction of the patriarchy, and then turn around and ask why I have to ‘be so divisive’ or say dismissively that I ‘sound like Al Sharpton’ when I dare bring up race.”
Source: So You Want to Talk About Race
“White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.”
“White wrought-iron chairs scattered with blowsy cabbage roses. Robin's-egg blue porcelain cake stands, dotted with strawberries as small and red as lipstick kisses. Green-stemmed stools with speckled pink seats.”
Source: Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
“White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.”
“White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.”
“White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.”
“White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.”
“White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.”
“White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.”
“White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.”
“White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.”
Source: The Piano Tuner: A Novel
“White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.”
“White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”
“Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.”
“Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.”
“Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.”
“Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.””
“Whiteness in the press had positioned itself for too long as the self-appointed, self-referential arbiter of racial problems, in which it pondered why these black and brown communities were so prone to violence and poverty, without a shred of self-awareness.”
Source: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
“Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . . . . Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet”
“Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.”
“Whiteness is ownership of the earth.”
“Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.”
“Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the accretion, the intellectual accretion, the philosophical secretion that generates within the edifice of white supremacy that allows people easy escape, and egress. And I'm saying, "No, you can't leave now. You cannot afford to not know what I'm talking about, because you gotta be held accountable."”
“Whiteness, like herpes, lingers forever. If you travel across South Asia, for example, you'll look at all the ads promoting beauty products and ask yourself why everyone looks like a white person from New Jersey with a summer tan. In fact, beauty is still often measured by saaf rang, or clean skin color, which refers to "light skin tone." Fair & Lovely cream sells like hotcakes all around South Asia, even though everyone knows it's bullshit and doesn't help make you either "fair" or "lovely." You can never wipe off the brown no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you pray, but, still, people aspire and hope maybe, one day, one bottle will contain a magical elixir that takes them to Whiteness.”
Source: Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
“Whiteness wants enough blackness to affirm the goodness of whiteness, the progressiveness of whiteness, the open-heartedness of whiteness. Whiteness likes a trickle of blackness, but only that which can be controlled.”
Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
“Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.”