Whiteness Quotes
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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.”
Manning Marable -
He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.
Lord Byron
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For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.
David Roediger -
Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.
Earle Birney -
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness of the world is threatened. This must be resolved by whatever means possible.
Heidi Julavits -
I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.
Michael Eric Dyson -
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity?”
Noel Ignatiev -
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”
Noel Ignatiev