Quotes tagged ‘Woke’

(12 total)

“People do not seem to appreciate the commentary she's making with her yarn colors.”

“We want to raise our kids to be really aware. I think that’s all you can do.”

— Kim Kardashian West, interviewmagazine.com

“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“There are two things I am passionate about: recycling and revenge.”

— Greg Daniels, Andy Bernard, Ed Helms, imdb.com

“Oh, so now y’all wanna be woke when a bitch been an alarm clock since Day 1? Well, beep beep, motherfuckers! BEEEEEP! BEEEEEP!”

— Issa Rae, Issa Dee, Issa Rae, imdb.com

“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.”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Rashid Bakr, Jeremy Tardy, imdb.com

“I wanted an avant-garde look, like Solange — something that says, ‘I’m woke, but I’ll also kick your ass in an elevator.’”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Samantha White, Logan Browning, imdb.com

“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?”

— Njeri Brown, Leann Bowen, Coco Conners, Antoinette Robertson, imdb.com

“Just because you're a woke superhero doesn't mean you have to be a broke superhero.”

— Cheo Hodari Coker, Bobby Fish, Ron Cephas Jones, imdb.com

“You don’t understand — some of the humor in my favorite TV show seems problematic, but it’s just ironic.”

— Arwen Downs, mcsweeneys.net

“I still wake up white in a city that ain’t.”

— David Mills, Councilman Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com

“Recognizing the ways in which things are problematic – and, um, just about everything is problematic in some sense – doesn’t mean that we have to entirely distance ourselves from them. It just means that we need to be cognizant of them, talk to other people about them, and constantly reevaluate what…”

— Melissa A. Fabello, everydayfeminism.com