#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 get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Apple's tell-tale white earbuds. But I'm constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better? ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#apple #better #constantly #could #enough

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#before #black #ever #got #hold

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see. ↗

— Guy Madison

#i see #like #proper #see #white

What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#basis #cannot #care #equal #i

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#came #clark #country #first #had

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. ↗

— Chiang Kai-shek

#due #good #good health #health #made

I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley. ↗

— Spike Lee

#beginning #black #bob #bob marley #college