White World Quotes - Page 1

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James Baldwin /
Black
Definitions
Threatened
Power Man World
Accept
Refuses
Whenever
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
Jackie Robinson / Baseball Player
Birth
Black
Salute
White
Man World I Am
Man World Black
Flag
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I landed in New Jersey, where I could barely speak English, and I had to figure out what a short brown kid was going to do in this big white world.
Maria Ressa / Journalist
Brown
Jersey
New Jersey
Barely
Landed
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Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And I know that ain't the life.
John Singleton /
Honest
Honest People
Life World Me
Appalled
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My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
Edward P. Jones / Novelist
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I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
Bobby Short / Singer
Appreciated
Performers
Vocal
Mainly
Qualities
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Do mainstream crowds want to watch a movie about good things happening in black neighborhoods? Do black audiences want to see a little girl doing something in a white world?
Laurence Fishburne / Actor
Crowds
Good Things
Good World Black
Little Girl
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I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.
Paul Mooney / Comedian
Battle
Constant
Messed Up
Real
Self
White
Richard
Messed
Pryor
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What Jazzy Jeff and rappers like him talk about is phony stuff. They're not into street raps, into telling what's really happening out there. They're talking about what the white world and the white kids can identity with.
Mc Ren /
Phony
Rappers
Jazzy
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I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Samuel L. Jackson / Film Actor
Community
Contact
Direct
Eye
Eye Contact
House
Two
White
Acted
Always World Community
Always World Way
Always Community World
Modify
Spoke
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I learned at an early age how to traverse the white world, the white-dominant world. I learned, and I was successful at it. I learned the nuances - I learned how to act, how to be - but I always was conscious and aware of my blackness.
Ron Stallworth /
Blackness
Conscious
Successful
Traverse
White
Act
Age Always World
Aware
Early
Early Age
Learned
Nuances
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It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know how to live in a man's world. Gay people have to know how to live in a straight world. Black people gotta know how to live in a predominantly white world.
Sterling K. Brown / Actor
Different Worlds
Navigate
Women Man World
Women Man Always
Gotta
Minority
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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
James Hillman / Psychologist
Depression
Car
Home
Children
Concerned
Immigrants
My Own
New Car
Pay
Psychological
White
Competitive
Taking
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes / Poet
Smile
America
Eternal
Inherent
Jazz
Joy
Laughter
Pain
Revolt
Soul
Subway
Weariness
White
Life Work Pain
Against
Beating
Life Smile Work
Expressions
Trains
Swallowed
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The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
Aasif Mandvi / Actor
Kids
Absurdity
Both Sides
Daily Show
Fence
Great Joy
Guy
Sides
White
Best Great Always
Commenting
Cultures
Daily
Insider
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Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.
Nina Simone / Singer
Black
Black And White
Found
Human Voice
Notes
Piano
Pure
Voice
White
World
Like
Black And White World Black
Being
Me
Any
Only
Did
Between
Both
Both Worlds
Them
Human
Black And White Black Me
Instrument
Other
Sing
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That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.
Michael Arrington / Editor
Jobs
Black And White
Founders
Mediocre
No Point
Real
Venture
Nearly
Capitalists
Real Job
Successes
Varied
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