“In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .” PeopleFeelsFallFightingWhiteEuropeWeakHumbleRageTendenciesAggressionModestPoliteOutburstTropics Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski
“The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.” DoeCountrySidesWhiteRichTreeColorSpringOrdinaryEuropeWoodsSymbolsOver YouValleysTidesContinentsBridesLiliesLilacMagnoliasAzaleas Author:Svetlana Alliluyeva
“There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.” PeopleIfsLooksWhiteFrontsTypeHealthyEuropeShiningTeethFunny ThingsScandinaviansScandinaviaWhite Teeth Author:Charlotte Bingham
“The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.” PeopleShouldCountryStatesWhiteUnitedUnited StatesEuropeAmerican Indian Author:Bobby Fischer
“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.” PeopleLooksLongMatterSidesWhiteRolesTeachStudyCenturyColorEuropeWesternCelebrateSeatsExplorationExploitationExtensionsBoth SidesTwentieth CenturyExploitsTextbooksColumbus Book:Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.” MenWorldActionWhiteEuropeProgramWhite ManWorld HistoryAffirmative ActionAffirmativeBeneficiaries Author:Michael Kimmel
“In 2003, at the time I made my "Old Europe" comment, the center of gravity in NATO and Europe had long since shifted to the East. With the former Warsaw Pact countries joining NATO, the alliance has a different mix today. Some people were sensitive about my comment because they thought it was a pejorative way of highlighting demographic realities. Apparently they felt it pointed a white light at a weakness in Europe - an aging population. Europe has come some distance since World War II in becoming Europe.” PeopleWorldWayLongMadeDifferentWarCountryRealityLightTodayFeltWhiteBecomingWeaknessEuropeDistanceAgingPopulationEastFormerSensitiveWar Of The WorldsCommentWorld War IiGravityWorld War IAlliancesJoiningNatoDemographicsPactWhite LightHighlightingWarsawCenter Of GravityAging PopulationWarsaw Pact Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.” PeopleMenFirstsSaidChristianNationsWhiteChristianityBrotherEuropeClaimsDiscussionGreekEmpiresWhite ManBrothers And SistersArmeniansChristian NationByzantine Author:Immortal Technique
“In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.” TogetherAmericaBlackWhiteWonderfulCenturyEuropeIncludingDirtyWorking TogetherNineteenth CenturyPopulistPopulismAbolitionistDirty Words Author:Zephyr Teachout
“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.” KnowsWayMindKindBodyWhitePerspectiveEuropeTraditionAverageCongregationCharismatic Author:Michael Emerson
“During my campaign, I had come across a small number of (mostly) young men, who had strongly racist views. They told me they would only vote for a party that was willing to get rid of black and coloured people from this country. What struck me as strange is that they weren't bothered about the thousands of white Europeans arriving from Central and Eastern Europe.” PeopleMenCountryYoungBlackWhiteViewsPartyNumbersStrangeWillingEuropeVoteCampaignsYoung ManRacistEasternBotheredArrivingSmall NumbersEastern Europe Author:Andrea Leadsom
“I never heard my mom say, "Not now, I'm busy." But I did have extraordinary experiences that I'm very aware were extraordinary. I mean, I traveled Europe before I was 12 years old, had been to the White House numerous times. Andy Warhol photographed me; Michael Jackson called our house.” YearsMeanHouseWhiteHeardMomEuropeExtraordinaryBusyMy MomWhite HouseTraveledWarhol Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.” WorldHas BeensBlackWhiteCasesEuropeWesternIsraelArticlesBlack And WhiteAgain And AgainEssaysPalestineArab WorldWestern Movie Author:Amos Oz
“The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.” MenEarthCultureJesusBlackWhiteHellOur LivesCenturyPositionCivilizationDevilEuropeShipsChainsCavesSilkResumesCrawlingSatinFours Author:Malcolm X
“There's the complex categorization of low warmth/high competence. This is the hostile stereotype of Asian Americans by white America, of Jews in Europe, of Indo-Pakistanis in East Africa, of Lebanese in West Africa, of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia, and of the rich by the poor most everywhere. It's the same low-high derogation: They're cold, greedy, clannish - -but, dang, they're sure good at making money and you should go to one who is a doctor if you're seriously sick.” IfsShouldAmericaWhitePoorRichColdLowsEuropeDoctorsSickWestComplexesJewEastChineseMaking MoneyWarmthStereotypeGreedyHostileAsianCompetenceIndonesiaAsian AmericanWest AfricaCategorizationLebaneseEast Africa Author:Robert M. Sapolsky
“The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.” PeopleWorldFirstsWellsHas BeensWarWholeRunningKidsAmericaLeftWhitePoorClassIssuesFeetEconomicFirst TimeEuropeIndiaWestConservativeBritainRacistWorking ClassVirginiaConcentratingSexistPhonyWest VirginiaBare FeetDisenfranchisedEconomic Issues Author:Irvine Welsh
“I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.” KindLittlesAbleNightHouseBitsWhiteNiceCoupleLittle BitMusicianEuropeDown AndCompetitionClubsHotelWhite HouseFestivalsNestsVirginiaNice ThingsSaxophoneSome NiceCouple Things Author:Jon Gordon
“I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.” WantRememberHouseWhiteWorstEuropeWho We AreWhite HouseI Want YouRemember When Author:Mitt Romney
“You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.” PainAmericaHouseWhiteEuropeMarkBunchBloodyValentineValentine's DayHeartbeatCelticFunkyCrosbyEurope And America Author:Rob Sheffield
“In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography—in particular, to the continents’ different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate.” DifferentRealDifferencesWhiteAnimalParticularEuropeAreasAssumingPlantHistoricalSpeciesDuesAccidentsRacistContinentsStemEstatesGeographyTrajectoryColonizationAxesPlants And Animals Author:Jared Diamond
“Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.” YearsMayWholeFeelingsCultureNamesBlackReligiousWhiteShareCivilizationThousandRacismEuropeTraditionResponsibleSouthManageTensionRegionsLatinDividedContinentsBlack And WhiteBrutalSavagesThousand YearsRevivalBeing ResponsibleLatentContinuationUncivilizedSaharaOld Traditions Author:Frantz Fanon