Whiteness Quotes

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  • We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

    Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.79, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.

    "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.
  • Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this way. Such study began with slave folktales and American Indian stories of contact with whites.

    Taken   Groups   Stories  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

    Heart   Fire   Secret  
    Khalil Gibran, “Love”
  • 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.”

    Racist   Faces   Accepted  
  • I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

    Blue   Jewels   Pits  
    Ted Hughes (1998). “Birthday letters”, Wheeler Pub Inc
  • I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.

    Mean   People   Ask Me  
    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.

    Source: www.architecturaldigest.com
  • My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

    Freedom   Agony   White  
    Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    Eye   Long   Holiness  
  • I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.

    Source: blog.yupnet.org
  • Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

    Purple   Mind   Wool  
    St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.399, Jazzybee Verlag
  • If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

    Years   White   People  
  • This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.

    Art   Race   America  
    Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.32, University of Missouri Press
  • It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

    Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.49, Haymarket Books
  • We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

    Men   Snow   Doe  
    Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carew Hazlitt (1910). “Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W. C. Hazlett [[”
  • From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before.

    Fall   White   Light  
    Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Opticks: A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light”, p.98, Library of Alexandria
  • When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates, I judge them by the smile in their lips, their smoothness of speech, and the whiteness of teeth; then I offer them the appropriate fruit, which is usually a lemon.

    Party   Believe   Judging  
  • The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

    Sleep   Night   Sea  
    Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.112, Virginia Woolf
  • At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

    Fire   Wrath   Rocks  
    FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Nov 14, 2015
  • Every Man being conscious to himself, That he thinks, and that which his Mind is employ'd about whilst thinking, being the Ideas, that are there, 'tis past doubt, that Men have in their Minds several Ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, Whiteness, Hardness, Sweetness, Thinking, Motion, Man, Elephant, Army, Drunkenness, and others: It is in the first place then to be inquired, How he comes by them? I know it is a received Doctrine, That Men have native Ideas, and original Characters stamped upon their Minds, in their very first Being.

  • The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

    Men   Soul   World  
    Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.13
  • When I wouldn't leave home without my blue contacts or when I was bleaching my hair, I didn't have the language to articulate that I was trying to assimilate to whiteness. If anything, I was trying to "look normal."

    Home   Hair   Blue  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.

    Keys   Race   White  
    Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey (2014). “Race Traitor”, p.10, Routledge
  • Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

    bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge
  • It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

  • What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • 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.

    Past   Order   White  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
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