A Quote by Anna Deavere Smith

In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Anna Deavere Smith
American - Actress
Born: September 18, 1950

Growing up in a predominantly white area of the predominantly white state of Wisconsin, it was, I'm sad to say, relatively easy for me to go through life without recognizing or reckoning with the obvious signs of racism.

Joe Thomas

In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.

Anderson Cooper

I've been on predominantly 'white' shows before, and I had also been on predominantly 'black' shows. I would complain that when I was on a white show, they would only hire me because there was a black character or they needed a black voice. But then I would be mad if they went and hired a white dude in my position.

Kenya Barris

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

Kevin Hart

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

Jermaine Jenas

It's very hard to be a kid, especially in a predominantly white school or white town where other people want to police your body and hair.

A'Lelia Bundles

I have a lot in common with most Trump supporters. I'm white, I live in a rural area that is predominantly white where many people struggle to find a job.

Stephanie Land

There seems is predominantly a white person's drug addiction epidemic, so that's why you see white people in our film, Warning: This Drug May Kill You.

Perri Peltz

It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.

Marianne Elliott

Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

Fran Drescher

Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich, predominantly white men in the House and Senate that have the power to send children of other parents - but not their own children - off to die [and] be injured in a senseless war.

Tomas Young

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

Edward Enninful

Spatial racism, the erasure of black faces in a predominantly white city, is in full effect in both Crown Heights and Center City Philadelphia. This racism demands that bodies that don't conform to a mandated 'white' status quo can be redlined out of a space.

Anthea Butler

When people grow up in atmospheres of violence or atmospheres of poverty, they don't normally use hi-falutin' language to describe those things. They would describe some brutal event the same way we would describe getting a taxi or missing the bus.