Whiteness Quotes

Whiteness Quote of the day

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

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as long as corn will tassel and cotton will bloom into whiteness.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

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.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

In a snowfall that covers the winter grass a white heron uses his own whiteness to disappear.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight

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.”

Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

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.

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

Whiteness is not the default in my fiction.

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

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?

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.

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.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

When I ache to live, my mind loves to stay with the peaceful whiteness of a pigeon’s care...in boundless amity..

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

The popular mocking of reparations as a harebrained scheme authored by wild-eyed lefties and intellectually unserious black nationalists is fear masquerading as laughter.

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...