Best middle & white Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.”

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“Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma — that’s really America.”

People Littles Real Country America Hate Girl White Middle I Hate Conservative Fats Meat Racist Farms Teenage Grandma Teenage Girl Kmart

Author:Azealia Banks

“It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.”

Men Trying Believe White Views Boys Middle Sitting Adults Concerned Clouds Refuse Point Of View Gentleman Old Man Believe In God Beard Middle Aged

Book:The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

Source: The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention

“[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.”

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Book:Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

Source: Mr. Beluncle: A Novel

“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”

“The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.”

“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.”

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Author:Ellen Willis

“To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.”

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Author:Mary Brave Bird

“Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly chased, They fling themselves from their shadowy height. The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, What speed they make, with their grave so nigh; Flake after flake, To lie in the dark and silent lake!”

Lying Dark White Air Sky Middle Creatures Fairs Silent Speed Graves Snow Height Streams Lakes Haste Frail Fling Gazing Flakes

Author:William C. Bryant

“Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.”

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Author:Bella Abzug

“In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.”

Process Wealth White Class Poverty Middle Grew Higher Shadow Dear Clouds Rising Middle Class Broads Valleys Perpetual Holding On Rising Up Ledges Dear Life

Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

“in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.”

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Book:FEAR OF FALLING

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.”

Thinking Reality White Class Violence Doors Middle Grew Grew Up Consequence Violent Atmosphere Middle Class Survived Shattered Early Life Consequences Of Violence

Author:Eve Ensler

“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.”

Firsts Has Beens Dream America Values House Interest White Class Streets Middle Privilege Administration Middle Class White House Abandoned Denied Mainstream Ignored Scorned Main Street

Author:John F. Kerry

“I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.”

Men Lying Black White Middle Males Purses Baffled Fetch

Book:...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

Source: ...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel

“It's not the best between my family and me. There are so many crimes left unpunished, debts unpaid, white elephants in the middle of the room that no one will even offer a peanut to. We are in the red, emotionally speaking.”

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Book:I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

“what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.”

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Author:Dale Spender

“Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to a film's finance, and television won't show black-and-white. So that killed it off, really.”

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Author:John Boorman

“I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.”

Knows Feels Mind Looks Persons Said States Night Father White Taken Middle Grew Grew Up South Terrorism Usa Segregation Middle Of The Night Obeying Frame Of Mind

Author:Alice Walker

“My age fallen away like white swaddling Floats in the middle distance, becomes An inhabited cloud.”

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Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.”

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Author:Diamanda Galas

“There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.”

Said White Class Middle Democrat I Realized Middle Class Mutual Working Class Misunderstanding Disagreement Upper Middle Class

Author:Timothy Noah

“My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.”

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Book:Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

Source: Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement

“Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.”

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Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“We were a really crazy band. This was in '73. I had my hair real short with a white stripe down the middle of my head. The guitarists had pink hair. We weren't playing CBGB's either, we were playing Statesborough, Georgia, for cowboys on penny beer night. We used to keep crowbars onstage when fights would break out. Those were really wild times.”

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Author:Rex Smith

“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.”

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Author:Bill Frisell

“I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“When I'm standing in the middle of the salt flats, where you swear that the pupils of your eyes have turned white because of the searing heat that is rising from the desert, I think of my childhood, I think of my mother, my father, my grandparents; I think of the history that we hold there and it is beautiful to me. But it is both a blessing and a burden to be rooted in place. It's recognizing the pattern of things, almost feeling a place before you even see it. In Southern Utah, on the Colorado plateau where canyon walls rise upward like praying hands, that is a holy place to me.”

“On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.”

Stills Country Lasts America White Deals Talking Vision Middle Dying Males Conservative Corpses Music Business Middle Aged Fart Paraphrase

Author:Edward Norton

“When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.”

Wells Moving White Class Middle Percent Flight Middle Class Neighborhood Qualified Latino Tipping Tipping Point Upper Middle Class

Author:Richard Benjamin

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.”

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Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.”

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Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

“I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?”

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Author:Vanilla Ice

“I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.”

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Author:Chris Bauer

“When I shared a room with my sister Trisha, we drew a line down the middle. She had Laura Ashley stuff with flowers everywhere, and her whole side of the room was white, while my side of the room was painted, freaky and covered with stuff.”

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Author:Melissa Joan Hart

“The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.”

“I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is an attorney. My mother is a housewife. They had five kids in seven years: me, my brother, and three sisters. I'm the oldest. We were all very active. My mother was exhausted.”

“As I've submerged myself in news of the revolutions sweeping North Africa and the Middle East, I wanted desperately to feel part of what was going on. And then it hit me: This is what white people were doing to me after Obama was elected!”

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Author:Baratunde Thurston

“Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.”

Has Beens Whole White Class Middle Wine Details Middle Class Slips Salad Satirical Upper Middle Class White Wine Arugula

Author:David Denby

“As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.”

World Dream White Class Middle Males Middle Class Invites Viewers Underdog

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.”

Thinking Persons Made Moving Song White Class Middle Grew Grew Up Commitment Privilege Nostalgia Despite Relate Middle Class Ache Keep Moving Upper Middle Class

Author:Erin McKeown

“I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse conditions than anything that's portrayed commonly in media/what I experienced.”

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Author:Marie Calloway

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