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Dear White People Quotes

“Joelle: Is it just me, or is Drake’s entire career a response to that episode of Degrassi when he was in a wheelchair and couldn’t get it up?

Samantha: Yeah, we get it, Drake. You fucks.”
— Joelle Brooks, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter X
Tagged: Drake, Pop Culture, Music, Degrassi, tv show, joke
“I’m smarter than you. I’m more ambitious than you. Thirty years from now, when I am the second black female president… all you’ll be able to do is think about me. And I won’t remember your name.”
— Coco Conners, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter IX
Tagged: Ambition, President, Intelligence, Insult, Sassy, breakup
“Oh, you think the black man has a monopoly on suffering? You have no clue what black women go through, probably ‘cause you can’t get close to one, ‘cause you’re fucking whack. We deal with the same shit society heaps on you, then turn around and deal with the shit you heap on us.”
— Joelle Brooks, Dear White People, Volume 2: Chapter V
Tagged: Suffering, racism, Pain, Women, Womanhood, Intersectionality
“Rashid Bakr: This is what happens when a country refuses to address its history with slavery.

White Student: We need to do here what they did in Germany.

Everyone: What?!

White Student: I meant educating kids about the nation’s horrible past part, not the concentration camp part.”
— Rashid Bakr, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter V
Tagged: History, Slavery, racism, Germany, joke, Woke
“A bullet held me captive, gun in my face, your hate misplaced. White skin, light skin, but for me, not the right skin.”
— Reggie Green, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter VI
Tagged: poem, Poetry, BLM, Black Lives Matter, Black, Race, Violence, Gun Violence, Police Brutality, Pain
“As soon as you double down on your blackness, they will double down on their bullshit... Who cares if you’re woke or not if you’re dead?”
— Coco Conners, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter VI
Tagged: Woke, Bullshit, Black, BLM, Social Justice, dead, scary
“I like my men like I like my coffee ― full-bodied and preferably with Kenyan origins.”
— Samantha White, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter IV
Tagged: Men, Relationships, Kenya, Coffee, flirty, sexual, Sassy
“Black lives are degraded without regard, and we in here watching TV. This is how the revolution dies.”
— Reggie Green, Dear White People, Volume 1: Chapter I
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Revolution, TV, Entertainment
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