#white

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. ↗

— Alex Haley

#black #brown #digging #feel #feet

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#behind #every #know #made #mistake

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. ↗

— Fannie Lou Hamer

#back #gets #gives #just #man

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me. ↗

— Ira Hayes

#back #better #buddies #coming #crack

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels. ↗

— John Hersey

#came #compensate #count #higher #ills

I was a black singer with a white voice, a perfect pop voice. ↗

— Brenda Holloway

#i #perfect #pop #singer #voice

I don't like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

#basically #being #being lied to #i #lie

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #community #contact #direct #eye

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. ↗

— Black Kettle

#each #friends #intrigues #keep #now

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? ↗

— Bernard Levin

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only