The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate to that so much.
We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.