Janis Joplin Quotes

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

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Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

I don't understand why black people feel this undying need to want to be down with white people all the time.

While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.

I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.'

If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

White people are very good at acting like they're not racist. They deserve an Academy Award for that.

When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Whites don’t like to see the nigger with too much … White people was afraid that money will make the nigger act like his own man.

The American paradigm of race requires that there be an ‘other’ - and the other is Black people. That's what makes white people, white.

Barack Obama is an educated fool. He is viewed as the white man in blackface in the community.

Ronald Reagan is the President who is more responsible than any for the fact that white racism is both tolerated and even fashionable again in America.

Black people were so angry at me. But we need to get some distance from the binary opposition we were raised in: evil white people and good black people. The world just isn't like that.

Why is the world that I see around me mixed, and why is the world I see in movies filled with all white people? Why does it have to be like that?

The history of slavery in this country has affected not only how black people see themselves, but how white people see black people as well, and the roles they're meant to play... I'm aware of it, as a person of color.

I think it's very insulting to say, 'White people don't understand.' What are you talking about? You're part of the problem then if you're... speaking and labeling all white people, saying they don't understand the issue or saying they can't relate. That's really not giving people much credit, is it?

Even white people are tired of watching white people's shows.