#whit

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #black and white #civil rights #era #helping

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#behave #believe #black #country #jewish

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#country #else #everybody #everybody else #means

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. ↗

— Van Morrison

#highs #life #lows #part #situation

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. ↗

— Kate Moss

#being #braces #child #day #elastic

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#born #georgia #having #king #reared

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#encompasses #middle #middle class #population #white

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#largely #majority #question #race #silent

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#blacks #group #many #see #still

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#country #equality #european #extraction #farming