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We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.
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I like suits that are fitted. And I usually stick to grays, whites, and blacks.


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Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Phillip Noyce
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
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I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today.
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All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks.
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I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.


Ma Rainey
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Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.


Paul Mooney
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We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.


Tom Metzger
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.


Lana Parrilla
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
Flip Wilson
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey
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I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.
Susan Rice
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I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
Dick Gregory
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My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.
Derrick Bell
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.
Linda Chavez
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To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.'


Kal Penn
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When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.
Al Feldstein
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It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
David Lyons
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