#white

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#accepting #between #black #black and white #fears

Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#cause #down #effect #end #eyes

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music. ↗

— Nina Simone

#classical #classical music #dirt #i #jazz

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life. ↗

— John Singleton

#because #black #honest #i #know

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases. ↗

— Rebecca Skloot

#died #disease #diseases #given #gotten

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#anti-semitism #black #challenged #color #major

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons. ↗

— Will Smith

#across #appreciated #black #board #comedy

A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#convalescence #going #kind #lights #neutral

I found that there is very little interest in Washington for true election reform. That neither the White House nor either house of the Congress seems to be as committed to guaranteeing democratic participation in this country as we seem to be in other countries. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#congress #countries #country #democratic #either

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#black and white #city #congregation #every #great