These white quotes will inspire you. White of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light; the opposite of black.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging white quotes, white sayings, and white proverbs.
Best White Quotes
- “This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.” ~ Sitting Bull
- “It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.” ~ Nelson Mandela
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“Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.” ~ Doris Lessing
- “Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters.” ~ Eden Ahbez , White quotes about love
- “For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, ‘Do you hate me?’ The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I’m snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?” ~ Malcolm X
- “America needs to understand Islam because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered ‘white,’ but the ‘white’ attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.” ~ Malcolm X
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“The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.” ~ James Weldon Johnson
- “Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.” ~ Bob Marley
- “You may be assured that we won’t ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.” ~ Ralph Abernathy
- “Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.” ~ Robert Frank
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“In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.” ~ Paul Bettany
- “This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation. He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
- “The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled.” ~ Clarence Darrow
- “Only to the white man was nature a “wilderness” and only to him was the land “infested” with “wild” animals and “savage” people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it “wild” for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the “Wild West” began.” ~ Luther Standing Bear
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“White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.” ~ Nikki Giovanni
- “A lot of people, black, white, Mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul” ~ Tupac Shakur
- “There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it’s only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it’s only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.” ~ George W. Bush
- “Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn’t it? But we can’t do that because the media would be on me about that.” ~ Paula Deen
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“Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks are racists, they can find reasons to justify their own oppression of’ black people.” ~ James H. Cone
- “Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It’s black and white – dramatic. You have to be strong.” ~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
- “In the beginning, it was all black and white.” ~ Maureen O’Hara
- “It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!” ~ Barack Obama
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“Want to shut a racist white guy’s mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.” ~ Godfrey
- “A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.” ~ E. B. White
- “Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.” ~ Louis Aragon
- “There’s so much grey to every story – nothing is so black and white.” ~ Lisa Ling
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“Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?” ~ Jose Angel Gutierrez
- “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less” ~ Susan B. Anthony
- “Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society’s well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).” ~ Derrick Bell
- “So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress.” ~ Chris Rock
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“White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.” ~ Jack London
- “I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.” ~ Brené Brown
- “Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.” ~ Honore de Balzac
- “I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
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“…everything looks worse in black and white.” ~ Paul Simon
- “If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life….Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.” ~ Chester Himes , White quotes about life
- “The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.” ~ Adrian Frutiger
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“Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.” ~ John D. MacDonald
- “That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.” ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
- “I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.” ~ Frantz Fanon
- “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.” ~ Camille Paglia
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“Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I’ve always wanted to get better at tennis.” ~ Chuck Klosterman
- “She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And I think he’s a very different President. He does not want his wife to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And they really are partners. They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.” ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook
- “Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From ’34 to ’35 to ’36 to ’37 to ’38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn’t say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, “I cannot believe you’re not going to say one word.” And she writes to Walter White, “I’ve asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will.” But he doesn’t. And these become very bitter disagreements.” ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook
- “One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt – the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother’s home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law’s homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) – housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.” ~ Blanche Wiesen Cook
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“With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.” ~ Diahann Carroll
- “My wildest tipping point moment came when I was introduced to Clint Eastwood. He was sitting there, typical Clint Eastwood, wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, holding a Budweiser. He looks at me and says, “I watch your show from time to time.” I just stopped. I was like, “I can’t even think about that. I’m not even sure if I’m happy about that.”” ~ Chris Harrison
- “Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.” ~ Stanley Nelson Jr.
- “Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, ‘Oh my God, we had no idea.'” ~ Stanley Nelson Jr.
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“Oh, my other goal was that I wanted to talk about this area and this time in history. I wanted to talk about growing up in Oakland, a white kid, from this kind of generation of broken homes and listening to hip-hop.” ~ Moshe Kasher
- “I’m very proud and grateful to have the support of so many elected Vermonters and former officials. Two former governors, the current governor, the current other senator. I really appreciate that.And I think it’s because they’ve worked with me, they’ve seen what I do. They know what kind of a colleague I am. They want me as their partner in the White House. And that’s exactly what I will do.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “I do think questions have been raised and questions have to be answered.And there is no way to predict what comes in the door of that White House from day to day that can pose a threat to the United States or one of our friends and allies, and I think this is a big part of the job interview that we are all conducting with the voters here.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “If there is a large voter turnout, not only do we retain the White House, but I think we regain the Senate. We win governors’ chairs up and down the line. So I believe if you want to retain the White House, if you want to see Democrats do well across the board, I think our campaign is the one that creates the large voter turnout and helps us win.” ~ Bernie Sanders
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“You do a movie, depending on the character, there’s some degree of makeup involved, especially when you’re playing a vampire and you’re all white and kind of dead. Sleeves, regarding costumes, there are generally sleeves, which I appreciate. I think we all do.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “It’s just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it’s just cheaper in this country if you’re born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.” ~ Warren Ballentine
- “You can’t be afraid to speak the truth. If you’re speaking truthfully – no matter if you’re White, Black, Hispanic, Asian – if it’s the truth, it’s the truth! And if that’s what you’re telling, you have no reason to be fearful, or, worry about people trying to diffuse what you’re doing. Because, if you’re speaking the truth, they can’t beat the truth.” ~ Warren Ballentine
- “Renaissance man, woman, either way it’s a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia’s day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative expression. Both my parents were artists, who didn’t think much of TV and refused to upgrade our old black and white set. To entertain myself, I made art and wrote puppet shows.” ~ Mary Pope Osborne
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“I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.” ~ Lev Grossman
- “Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they’re African-American, whether they’re white or whether they’re Latino.” ~ Bernie Sanders
- “In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white men to be his protagonists.” ~ Tom Cole
- “I remember having my own apartment and a little used white Mustang car and $3000 in the bank, driving down Sunset Boulevard thinking, ‘Wow, it doesn’t get any better than this!'” ~ Cheryl Ladd
- “That first movie I did, Lucas [1986], was probably the closest to me. And Beetlejuice a little bit, in the sense that I did look like that. All they did was like put a little white powder here.” ~ Winona Ryder
