Anti Whiteness Quotes & Sayings

Whether they are able to enact it as lived practice or not, many white folks active in anti-racist struggle today are able to acknowledge that all whites (as well as everyone else within white supremacist culture) have learned to overvalue "whiteness" even as they simultaneously learn to devalue blackness. — Bell Hooks

As but one example, the title of this book comes from a 1968 article that appeared in the prestigious Archives of General Psychiatry, in which psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Frank Simon described schizophrenia as a "protest psychosis" whereby black men developed "hostile and aggressive feelings" and "delusional anti-whiteness" after listening to the words of Malcolm X, joining the Black Muslims, or aligning with groups that preached militant resistance to white society. According to the authors, the men required psychiatric treatment because their symptoms threatened not only their own sanity, but the social order of white America. Bromberg and Simon argued that black men who "espoused African or Islamic" ideologies, adopted "Islamic names" that were changed in such a way so as to deny "the previous Anglicization of their names" in fact demonstrated a "delusional anti-whiteness" that manifest as "paranoid projections of the Negroes to the Caucasian group."10 — Jonathan M. Metzl

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else? — Daniel Marques

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you're not in it, there's a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing. — Adrienne Rich

If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you. — Kate McGahan

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. — Barack Obama

Love is the recognition of oneness in the world of duality. — Eckhart Tolle

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. — Ambrose Bierce

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly. — Steve Earle

Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be. — Carol Tavris

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. — Stephen King

When we overthink, we stop acting boldly and hide behind our endless streams of questions, objections, and insecurities. We drive away people and opportunities that are meant to be in our lives by overwhelming them with our expectations, stipulations, and worries. We shut off our hearts and allow our minds to work overtime, essentially turning ourselves into hamsters in wheels - endlessly grinding but going nowhere. — Mandy Hale

Most people are idiots. There's nothing worse than idiots who tell you their opinions. — Richard Kadrey

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker. — Christopher Monckton

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling. — Alex Haley

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. — Anne Lamott

Loving yourself ... does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion — Margot Anand

All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. — Edmund Spenser