#whit

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#depression #lazy #unemployed #whites

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#beauty

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#black #civil #civil rights #country #every

When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#against #anyone #bring #ever #filled

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. ↗

— Aime Cesaire

#beneath #cries #foot #out #paint

I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story. ↗

— Peach-Pit

#cinderella #fairy-tales #inspirational #main-character #sleeping-beauty

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#every #group #guy #guys #i

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#been #depths #flame #found #generous

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

#exactly #find #instance #kind #language

Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the White House with their children. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#children #could #events #house #me