“This opioid crisis is a crisis. I see it everyday. It’s as bad as they say. It’s ruining lives, it’s…destroying families. Sadly, you know what it reminds me of? Seeing it? Reminds me of us. These white folks look exactly like us during the crack epidemic. You know, it’s really crazy to see. And all…”— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com
“I’m stuck being white. White people are the worst.”— Thomas Ward, Liz Doran, Hannah Gadsby, Josh Thomas, Josh, Josh Thomas, imdb.com
“When somebody like Frederick Douglass wrote a book, he was writing to white people—legitimately—because he wanted them to behave, set him free. That was the audience. Not for me. Tolstoy was not writing for little girls from Ohio. He was writing for Russians, right? I’m writing to, about, and for ot…”— Toni Morrison, granta.com
“If I take your race away, and there you are, all strung out. And all you got is your little self, and what is that? What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? Are you still smart? Do you still like yourself? I mean, these are the questions. Part of it is, ‘yes, the victim.…”— Toni Morrison, esquire.com
“It's like someone hit a piñata full of white people who suck at golf.”— Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Vinny Daniel, Jeremy Strong, imdb.com
“Calamity Jane: Is it true? Indians killin' white people? Dan: That's the sewer mouth that follows Hickok around. Calamity Jane: Why are we standin' here? Guy: Ridin' out tomorrow, daybreak. Calamity Jane: Oh, really? Tomorrow. What's your fuckin' rush?! I'm goin' now. Even without Bill. Even without…”— David Milch, Calamity Jane, Robin Weigert, imdb.com
“School is just for white people looking for other white people to read to 'em. I figured I save my money and read to myself.”— Brian Buckner, Tara Thornton, Rutina Wesley, imdb.com
“No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“[T]his condition of being treated as children we want to have nothing to do with…the majority of the Omahas are as competent as the same number of white people.”— Susan La Flesche Picotte, encyclopedia.com
“From the outset the work of an Indian girl is plain before her.…We who are educated have to be pioneers of Indian civilization. We have to prepare our people to live in the white man's way, to use the white man's books, and to use his laws if you will only give them to us…the shores of success can o…”— Susan La Flesche Picotte, encyclopedia.com
“We who are educated have to be pioneers of Indian civilization. The white people have reached a high standard of civilization, but how many years has it taken them? We are only beginning; so do not try to put us down, but help us to climb higher. Give us a chance.”— Susan La Flesche Picotte, smithsonianmag.com
“How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically read it all men are created equal, except negroes…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“I thought you said you was bringin' a white boy home! I don't see a white boy! I see a damn fool!”— Peter Mehlman, Grandpa, Nick LaTour, imdb.com
“So I go do my detective work, right? and I start putting pieces together and see this is what I came up with. They're probably abducting black people, brainwashing them and making them slaves... or sex slaves, not just regular slaves, but sex slaves and shit. See I don't know if it's the hypnosis th…”— Jordan Peele, Rod Williams, LilRel Howery, amazon.com
“I don't know if you know this. White people love making people sex slaves and shit.”— Jordan Peele, Rod Williams, LilRel Howery, amazon.com
“Maybe I’d just buy a few, maybe just the $40 probiotic mist to balance and restore my facial microbiome.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com
“White people got y'all thinking Muslims are terrorists while whites been terrorizing the world for centuries. I'm impressed.”— Southern Belle., twitter.com