{"quotes":[{"text":"The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.","author":"Herman Melville","tags":["civilization","violence","war","white-people"],"id":12976,"author_id":"Herman+Melville"},{"text":"All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.","author":"Christian Lander","tags":["home","houses","humor","white-people"],"id":34732,"author_id":"Christian+Lander"},{"text":"The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["african-americans","beliefs","bigotry","fear","inferiority","life","race-relations","racism","superiority","white-people"],"id":50534,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["degradation","opression","racism","slavery","white-people"],"id":58016,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"White people are drawn to farmer’s markets like moths to a flame. In fact, white people have such strong instincts that ifyou release a white person into a random Saturday morning they will return to you with a reusable bag full of fruits and vegetables.","author":"Christian Lander","tags":["farmers-markets","food","humor","white-people"],"id":68539,"author_id":"Christian+Lander"},{"text":"The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["african-americans","blacks","life","power","self-awareness","white-people","whites"],"id":83696,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["abolition","colored","race","race-america","race-relations","racism","slavery","white-people"],"id":94779,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"There is no bitterness in Wind In His Hair's heart,' he began. 'Our minds may choose different paths, but some part of every heart will always be as one. All my life I have been a warrior, and I will not change. I will not die as anything else.'The whites have taken much from me. They have taken my brothers, my wives, my children. Now they want to take me off the earth upon which I walk. Maybe they will kill me now, and if they do, so be it. I will not take their hands. I will keep my ponies' tails tied up for war.'- Wind In His Hair.","author":"Michael Blake","tags":["american-indians","differences","war","warrior","white-people","whites"],"id":98636,"author_id":"Michael+Blake"},{"text":"I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["america","black-people","foster-family","hate","mother","motherhood","oppression","race-relations","racism","white-people"],"id":119483,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.","author":"Junot Díaz","tags":["elvish","lord-of-the-rings","racism","spanish","white-people"],"id":129483,"author_id":"Junot+D%C3%ADaz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}