| 单词 | white man |
| 例句 | Apart from the white man we had first seen—who owned the tannery and lived by himself—there were some nine or ten Muslims under him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he climbed the stairs to the white man’s room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Yeah—I been shining some for a white man—” “A fellow named Griffin?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And we cannot sweat beneath the white man’s burdens for long. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “The white man knows that his acts have been those of a devil!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z An old hunchbacked white man performed the wedding. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And Getheren saw that the white man was his brother in body and feature. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The woman mashed her finger ’gainst her lips and said, “Hesh them chains! You wants to wake that white man and get this here boy killed? They’s plenty water here, just you wait!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z While I would not have considered fighting the political system of the white man, I was quite prepared to rebel against the social system of my own people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man opened it, took one quick look at my face, then pushed the door almost shut again, as though in desperate defense of himself and his home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, veiy seriously, he talked for two solid hours about ‘ ‘the devil white man’ ’ and ‘ ‘the brainwashed black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like the old days, long before any white man’s war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember when a white man shoved her angrily as she led a group of us onto an escalator, but Mommy simply ignored him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I can’t wait to tell Daddy that Ms. Jacobs taught us something that wasn’t from a dead white man’s perspective. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The younger white man with the red derby wore a necklace adorned with pieces of shriveled leather. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I never knew when some brainwashed black imp, some dyed-in-the-wool Uncle Tom, would nod at me and then go running to tell the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Now a young, clean- cut white man rose and came up, his hand extended, and Malcolm X rose and shook the proffered hand firmly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Yes. But he did not think of himself as a white man. He said, “I consider nothing human as alien to myself.” The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z That’s one automatic red murder flag to the white man, and his woman knows it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama Lessie told her five daughters never to open the door to a stranger, especially a white man. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We both knew it wasn’t safe to show up a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved automatically, grasping the thin ankles as he raised the white man by the armpits and backed from beneath the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did a white man ask you to sell these papers?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An elderly white man, bald and square of build, dressed in worn blue work clothes, peered intently at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to wave his hand and blot out the white man who was making him feel this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And will the tall, carroty-haired white man in fatigues stand by the doorjamb again, whistling a strange tune and staring fear into Florah and me? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief Joyi railed against the white man, who he believed had deliberately sundered the Xhosa tribe, dividing brother from brother. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man’s hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Fletcher repeated his gratitude toward a God that looked over a white man and his interests. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z An unbelievably large white man who smelled of strong wine and an even stronger body odor waddled past Polly and up to the auction area. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only the Klan looks out for the white man,” Paul Ellis told his son, with the profound solemnity of inebriation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time I turn, what I see is a white man, hustling away. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The biggest mystery of all was how the white man came to dominate us. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z A black woman and a white man were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z By the time the skinny white man got to me he had already made more than twenty boys John and he was tired of writing that name. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z With the white man encouraging us, we lugged the can to his car and put it into the back upon the floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They said someone might find a white man’s pistol that had bounced out of his saddle or his jacket or his holster, but it waren’t likely they’d find a pistol and a holster all together. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z His thinking, his strategies, if any, are always limited, at least basically, to only that which is either advised, or approved by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Order in the rows, such as it was, needed to be preserved, and there were things a white man could not do. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He feels an indulgent superiority whenever he sees these evidences of the white man’s frailty. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re bad enough. I don’t know any other white man who would put up with you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “But you know if a white man sees it, he’ll figure you mean to use it to escape.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “The white man sure is a devil. He proves that by his own actions.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z All of us being Indians in a white man’s Marine Corps meant we had a lot in common. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the white man, it turns out, has suffered too. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And, too, there are the deeper currents among even well-intentioned Southerners, currents that make the idea of a white man’s assuming nonwhite identity a somewhat repulsive step down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man shouted something to the black man, who then scuttled over to the door where my mother was desperately but vainly trying to calm me down. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As he crossed the state line into Mississippi, a white man hidden in a clump of bushes shot Meredith from behind with a shotgun, seriously wounding him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Shortly stooped to pick it up and the white man bared his teeth and swung his foot into Shorty’s rump with all the strength of his body. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man’s “integrating’ ’ with black women has already changed the complexion and characteristics of the black race in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Rufus’s voice from near the steps where he was talking with the other white man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If a white man asked her to dance, she would refuse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother and my grandmother told me never to go anywhere with a white man no matter what. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly a white man came up to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw a white man coming toward him, then a black man. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s another one the white man has always been quick to cry. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z These stories were set in mythical African kingdoms ruled by black people, where no white man had ever set foot. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z To the front of him a white man pounded with a hammer-like piece of wood upon a table. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It is a fact that every American Negro bears a name that originally belonged to the white man whose chattel he was. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Boy, you know you need to go to a barbershop. Got more hair than a white man who done got lost on a hike.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I could tell that he enjoyed getting one on him, ’cause it was his boss or ’cause he was a white man, I didn’t know. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A white woman was driving and on the passenger’s side, next to me, was a white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Harris, he explained, was unique: he was a white Thembu, a white man who in his heart loved and understood the Thembu people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And on top of my head was this thick, smooth sheen of shining red hair—real red—as straight as any white man’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To the Negro who sees this element of the white man’s nature—and he sees it much more often than any other—the white man’s comments about the Negro’s alleged “immorality” ring maddeningly hollow. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had to get to the roof; he struggled upward, then fell flat, in deep soft snow, his eyes riveted upon a white man across the street upon another roof. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “He read this book call Invisible Man. When he done, he say he gone write down what it was like to be colored working for a white man in Mississippi.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the middle of our conversation the mistress of the boardinghouse nervously ushered a white man into my room. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a sad case of a brainwashed black Christian ready to do battle for the white man— who wants no part of him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke English and was married to a white man, and she had not succumbed to the temptations that had hurt many young members of the tribe, including Anna. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z How did Arthur Ashe get to be so good in a white man’s sport? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Negro came to the white man for a roof or for five dollars or for a letter to the judge; the white man came to the Negro for love. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The mechanic, a white man with many years of service at the laboratory, sabotaged Byrdsong’s experiment by incorrectly affixing the model to its sting in the tunnel’s test section. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A stooped, gray-haired white man approached him one Sunday and invited him to his shop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “The white man’s Heaven,” sings a Black Muslim minister, “is the black man’s Hell.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I listen today to the radio, and watch television, and read the headlines about the collective white man’s fear and tension concerning China. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man standing in there said, “I’m from the F.B.I.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Trueblood seemed to smile at me behind his eyes as he looked from the white man to me and continued. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, a younger white man opens the door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I looked up and saw a white man, beckoning me to come to the glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In America, ha would have been called a white man, but—it struck me, hard and instantly—from the way he acted, I had no feeling of him being a white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was one of the ways I found out how life is different for an Indian and a white man,” Danny said. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Because who in the world’s history ever has played a worse “skin game” than the white man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the government Coloureds were neither black nor white, even though some of them were as black as the blackest black man, or as white as the whitest white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man named John Smith Pleasants inherited Mourning and her husband, George, from his father, one of the first slaveholders in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “And you have people like this gentlemen, going around the neighborhood, helping out where they can,” the white man says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She moved her great bulk around with the swaggering confidence of a white man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When they both came out, Mama asked, “Where did this ...?’’ “A white man gave it to me and said—” “How we gonna feed it?” she asked him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked and saw a white man with a tray of food. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally back in the United States, Houston and a friend, still in uniform, were returning home on a train when a white man refused to sit next to them in the dining car. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The white man started a conversation with Royal at an antislavery meeting; impressed, Wheeler told him to come to his office the next day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Here was one of the white man’s most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man’s eyes were steadily upon him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He does not own slaves nor believe in slavery, but he does not believe that the Negro, “in the present stage of his development,” can be considered the equal of the white man. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mommy enrolled her in two more schools, but she quit both, declaring, “The white man’s education is not for me.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an unusual looking white man, his face young, almost unlined, but his hair completely gray and his eyes so pale as to be almost colorless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Papa is asking what kind of white man is this? Why did he come here and what is he doing?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Besides, neither would I have replied to anyone writing me something as wild as “the white man is the devil.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t he get me then. You see that white man kick me that time. Whooey.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean ordinary working people, the kind that we otherwise almost never saw in a bar like Small’s, who, with a good enough hit, had quit their jobs working somewhere downtown for the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The first Opium War was promptly declared by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All my life, I had followed the code that told me to never show up a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some resigned from the white man’s agencies and came to work in the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If a white man raised by jungle apes could retain the integrity of a white man in a flannel suit, then surely racial purity could be maintained in any circumstance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was the kind of white man I feared. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can you not have a passport — you are a white man!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z These men were all Chicanos, and he was a white man, the person theoretically in charge of this search. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was her seventh proposal, and every one had been from a white man. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z At my elbow stood a young white man, Mr. Olin, the immediate foreman under whom I worked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When Malcolm X, the supposed demon of the white man, was killed, I asked her who he was and she said, “He was a man ahead of his time.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “The white man won’t give you anything, and the black man doesn’t have anything to give you. If you want anything out of life, you have to get it for yourself.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A white man was not too unusual if he had a ten-, twenty-, thirty-, forty-, or fifty-thousand-dollar-a-year job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chief White Halfoat was out to revenge himself upon the white man. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Now they wanted to talk about a white man on the Moon? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Alas, this value can scarcely be corroborated in any other way; there is certainly little enough in the white man’s public or private life that one should desire to imitate. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Afi had no time to answer, for a small boat came up close to the ship, and a balding white man climbed on board. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The zoo gatekeeper was a short white man with a fat face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam was a white man of twenty-five years and exhibited none of the eccentric mannerisms of his co-workers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was a white man of intellect and true knowledge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The white man leaped from his chair, flabbergasted by the storm of screams in his office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, a strange white man had come to her house, written up the statement, and forced her to sign it, even though none of it was true. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Afterward he pondered about this white man a long time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A burly white man in a union jacket charged through a line of people, fists flying. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z We found the white man who was running the store on the day that Ralph Myers came in for the purpose of giving a note to Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he’s of Scottish descent? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Knowing him convinced me that the white man of South Africa could change his ways of oppression if he wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I hand- scratched to them how the white man’s society was responsible for the black man’s condition in this wilderness of North America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a tightness in her voice that reveals she doesn’t agree with this particular line of thinking, but the old white man doesn’t notice. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Wait a minute there,” the white man said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man who stands before us has the reddened skin of someone who has spent many long days in the shadeless sun of these plains. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the library, Ophie discovered a finely dressed white man speaking with an unseen partner about the rights of the African. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z She opens the door, but instead of my aunt’s face, or any one of my cousins greeting me, it’s an older white man. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “In New York, women give their eight hours to the white man,” one of the worshipers said in the poor woman’s defense. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Won’t be like what you see on the news, though. A white lady do things different than a white man.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Anyhow, I played scary at first but Just Black told me that this was one white man that our people could trust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had talked to him as to no other white man and had trusted him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We had achieved the ultimate triumph in a white man’s sport. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of these black convicts still wouldn’t believe it unless they could see that a white man had said it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew that the average white man would not approve of his liking such talk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z That she was dating a handsome white man in a BMW coupe, her hair an Afro, a red flower tucked behind her ear. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop wondering why Mama, Grandma, and Daddy couldn’t talk back to that white man. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I studied our history both before and after the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t mean one card off the top of the stack for the white man and one off the bottom for the Negro, it—” “Let’s look at it this way,” said her father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Barack is viewed in part to be the white man in blackface in our community,” Donne Trotter told the Chicago Reader. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When a white man faces a black man, especially if the black man is helpless, terrible things are revealed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z At the end of the procession rode a second white man with a gun in his belt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The white man scribbled a short note and handed it to my mother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to talk to the white man and ask him some questions, but he did not know for sure if he could really understand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We were led one by one to stand in front of a skinny white man with yellow hair who was sitting at a desk. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man's hot eyes swept the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, while waiting for a traffic light to change on his way home from work, C.P. spotted a long-haired white man, a quintessential hippie in C.P.’s eyes, in the car next to him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But at that time, I felt that the real reason was that the white man knew that he was the devil. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z During their stay they climbed aboard a city bus and sat down next to a white man and his son. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Whites never had to sit at the back of the bus during Jim Crow, but today a white man may find himself in prison for a drug offense, sharing a cell with a black man. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Here is a powerful white man, I thought as I listened, the leader of our nation, standing up for the rights of my people! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The house next to ours came to life, and a middle-aged white man and woman walked outside and stared at me as I was leaned over the vehicle. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Another white man walked up to the counter and I sighed with relief. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man that was folding up sheets of cloth for women’s dresses behind a counter looked up at me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She talked to him bold as any white man would. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z He would scratch his head and play dumb, like you always do when the white man asks those questions you better not answer. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It came from a middle-aged, heavyset, well- dressed white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This case also attracted a large crowd — not to see me, but to find out whether the white man’s laws could be applied to a sangoma. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been standing with the unlighted cigarette in his mouth when the white man stepped up and held for him a lighted match. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Incredulous, the white man said: “You can read that headline?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can kick me for a quarter,” he sang, looking impishly at the white man out of the corners of his eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew perhaps more than any white man about the Kikuyu, too, since his missionary father had allowed him to grow up almost as part of the tribe. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The white man—give him his due—has an extraordinary intelligence, an extraordinary cleverness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was rare to see Papa shake hands with a white man and now I saw it twice in one day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an unfamiliar position—me, counting on a white man to defend me against other white people determined to hurt me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some in the crowd, like my friends and me, were short-haired and dressed much like any white man would dress. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that Hicks had “an open mind, and he never panics for the white man.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "You better think twice," the white man called. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an open invitation and other people climb in, like this white man in a shirt and tie and a Latino holding a camera on his shoulder. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Settlers needed the land, and if the Indians hadn’t learned by then that the white man’s treaties were entirely worthless, Ridgeway said, they deserved what they got. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z You have to be careful, very careful, introducing the troth to the black man who has never previously heard the troth about himself, his own kind, and the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was the only brown-skinned white man in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the visitor rose to speak he sounded like a white man. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s unbelievable how many black men and women have let the white man fool them into holding an almost romantic idea of what slave days were like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man’s red hair told me who he must be. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z As I wondered what the examination this time was I saw a muscular black man stand in front of the white man as if waiting for some command. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shet your mouth, you uppity little Sambo. You telling a white man what to do? What kind of place is this?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “My master, a fat white man from this city, grew tired of me and sold me to buyers who brought me here.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it clear why I have said that the American white man’s malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The foreman, a white man named Sam, said that I could take a rest when we had no logs to be moved. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Learn to walk upright like the white man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She did not know, but would not have been surprised to learn, that the angry white man was the leader of the local Ku Klux Klan: C. P. Ellis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A tall, broad-shouldered white man wearing a neat, well- pressed uniform sat at a desk. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man standing nearby spoke up in her defense. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A separate territory on which we can lift ourselves out of these white man’s slums for us, and his breadlines for us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Only in some chimookoman things, his cabin for instance, and his ability to play and win the white man’s game of chess with the trader, did he take secret pride. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And why would the vets act that way with a white man in the house? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear the young white man groan a few words—it sounded like “Oh, my God.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She came out, followed by a young white man. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you don’t take me to my floor, you will die,” the white man said, smiling a little for the first time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In these matters, the Negro has seen the backside of the white man too long to be shocked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that the American black man needed to quit thinking what the white man had taught him—which was that the black man had no alternative except to beg for his so-called “civil rights.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Arson, too, was a growing problem, as blacks, still unable to obtain justice in the white man’s courts, torched property belonging to their victimizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of the things he talked about even reminded me of Papa in some ways, as much as any white man could. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As King stood at the registration desk while reporters, cameramen and police looked on, a gaunt white man approached and said, “I’d like to see you a minute.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On the right is another white man, balding in a blue suit, sitting at the prosecutor’s desk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The young white man explained distinctly, loudly, that he had been in the Orient for a while, and now was studying at Columbia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the fulfillment of God’s promise, and the justification for their view that South Africa should be a white man’s country forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The red white man growled something at him and the dark-skinned man nodded. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man whose tan shirt had a star fixed on its pocket stood in front of JimmyTrotter and us and didn’t move. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z But a moment later I caught myself: I had fallen into the apartheid mind-set, thinking Africans were inferior and that flying was a white man’s job. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I dreaded riding with another white man, I dreaded more staying on the road all night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This is exactly the reason why wherever people who are anything but white live in this world today, the white man’s governments are finding themselves in deeper and deeper trouble and peril. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Poaching some limelight off a poor dead black boy and the hand of the white man who put him there. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He explains that most black junkies really are trying to narcotize themselves against being a black man in the white man’s America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the hair as mine had been for years, conked by cooking it with lye until it lay limp, looking straight like the white man’s hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our slave foreparents would have been put to death for advocating so-called ‘integration’ with the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I nodded, yet fear of the white man still tormented me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man glared as his car rolled by. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad’s teaching about how the white man had been created led me to Findings In Genetics by Gregor Mendel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I got to teach you that I’m a white man. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Serjeant Clippinger hung back, for the presence of a white man would do nothing but alarm a slave queried in such a manner. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Rage would heave their chest each time something or someone reminded them that it was the white man who kept their families away from them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a newcomer, a black man in what was historically a white man’s business, surfacing from obscurity with a weird name and odd backstory, hoping to strike a chord with the common Democrat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z An image of black men learning anything suggesting self-defense seemed to terrify the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d know, while listening to these childish words, that a white man would smile derisively at them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But the drunkard had pulled him into a white man’s restaurant and the white men at the counter had begun hollering out with their insolence. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The white man had told the Thembus that their true chief was the great white queen across the ocean and that they were her subjects. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The older white man in command discouraged all conversation with his glowering. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Flow else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z James didn't even look for a job, started hanging around with Major and Hollis, believing them when they said the white man would never let him build anything but garbage heaps. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the white man by the entrance gate pointed in the direction of our house. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z That discussion with the ambassador gave me a new insight- one which I like: that the white man is not inherently evil, but America’s racist society influences him to act evilly. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man in the gray suit, the one whose newspaper I had sent flying, approached us, and I knew I was in trouble. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It’s quite the predicament: wanting to touch and hug and kiss a white girl after a white man shot him and killed his best friend? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Who was my friend: the white man or the black boy? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon another white man, thin and gray, entered and went into the rear room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She was Japanese, but there was a white man at a desk behind her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A white man who worked in the building stepped into the elevator and waited to be lifted to his floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An old white man in a gray coat trotted by on a dun horse. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A white man had walked into my delicately balanced world and had tipped it and I had to right it before I could feel safe. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They reacted to the truth about themselves even more hotly than the devilish white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned and saw a white man smiling at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Helen was at war with the white man and took it home and laid it at Mommy's feet. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, G, going to go see the white man today, huh?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Is this friend of yours a white man?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He contended that if the leaders of the established civil rights organizations persisted, the social struggle would end in bloodshed because he was certain the white man would never concede full integration. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That frightened me because I knew if he used the gun to shoot that white man, the Klan and the police would come. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Anger would leap into their eyes each time the words white man were uttered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was convinced that whatever a Navajo could do, a white man could do better. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari stared intently at the kindly, silver-haired doctor; she never would have imagined a white man willing to help her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the African features of my black brothers and sisters whom the devilish white man had brainwashed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A slave had no rights, and certainly no excuse for striking a white man. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Why, sometimes I’ve felt I ought to jump down off that stand and get physical with some of those brainwashed white man’s tools, parrots, puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z An African elephant can’t stumble without falling on some white man with a shovel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When his sight cleared he saw policemen struggling with a slender white man. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He saw the bare head of a white man—the back of the head—framed in the narrow opening, stenciled against the yellow glare of the restless bars of light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Because all this has steadily helped this American white man to build up, deep in his psyche, absolute conviction that he is “superior.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was aware of the fact that our history was littered with the white man’s broken promises. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In the instant, almost of the blow being struck, the white man emitted something like a soft cough; his flashlight fell into the snow, a fast flick of vanishing light. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “My son said you went to show the white man the spirits in your village?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He said that it was degrading for a colored man to bow to a white man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Putting pressure on the white man, trying to blackmail him, won’t work. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I was hired by a florid-faced white man at the rate of fifty cents for nine holes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know you don’t realize the enormity, the horrors, of the so-called Christian white man’s crime. . . . “Not even in the Bible is there such a crime! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As reported in the Chicago Daily News, black leaders believed in black people’s freedom to spend their money “wherever the white man’s money is good.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He told her, too, that she had known he was smitten—how could she not know?—but pretended not to because she didn’t want a white man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z All they could see was that we had taken the white man’s women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd was parting, and as the movement spread to us we gave way too, to let a tall white man through. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z So the white man said, ‘What you want, Reverend?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Unaccustomed to the white man’s agricultural methods and deprived of buffalo, the Osage began to go hungry; their bones soon looked as if they might break through their skin. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A white man approached Kirk and told him he could not drink water from that particular fountain. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I then uttered the phrase, “There’s a white man outside,” which to small black children had the same effect as “There’s a bogeyman outside,” but still he would not stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a short, round white man with red cheeks who could have been anywhere from fifty to seventy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Up front, the professor, a bald white man with small spectacles and a florid face, has already started delivering his remarks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You want to be with that white man, girl?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And I say, “I thought you were. You defend this criminal white man harder than he defends his guilty self!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The vicious, arrogant white man put up the famous signs, “Chinese and dogs not allowed.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The bolts were making the normal-looking white man in the picture with him float off his feet and scramble and scratch at the air like he was ’bout to drift up to the clouds! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The conjurer winked at the big, rough, red-hair white man and said, “If he can do that, he must have an unusually keen eye. Could he, mayhap, demonstrate his skill some other way?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I’d never had lobster or cottage fries before, or had a white man play the piano just to make my meal go down easy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I crept forward, and then I saw him—a big white man, even taller than my father, broad and huge, like a wrestler. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, to be sitting at the same counter with a white man and just doing everyday talk was different for me too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if he could really trust any white man, even this white man who had come and offered him his friendship. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But he would teach on: “So let us separate from this white man, and for the same reason he says—in time to save ourselves from any more ‘integration!’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was interrogated for almost two hours by a white man who had in front of him a dossier containing every fact of my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She was holding it together as she watched a black man and a white man fighting. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm X snorted that no white man’s promise was worth the paper it was on; he would need time to decide if he 390 would cooperate or not. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You are a white man and a stranger.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was on the theme, familiar to me, of “as you sow, so shall you reap,” or how the hypocritical American white man was reaping what he had sowed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I would stand for hours on the doorsteps of neighbors’ houses listening to their talk, learning how a white woman had slapped a black woman, how a white man had killed a black man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And the white man’s second most pervading dread was his image of the black man entering the body of the white woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It helped him to see that every regularly priced carton he bought meant that the white man’s government took around two dollars of a black man’s hard-earned money for taxes, not for tobacco. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His flat newsboy hat tapers in the front, and underneath it his hair is straight and combed back toward his collar, like a white man’s. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Only then was he the white man’s equal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The auctioneer—a tall white man with thinning hair and a booming voice—would eventually step under the tree. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The former portrayed God as an old blue-eyed white man with a long white beard, sitting between white, fluffy clouds, flanked by two bearded white men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man had plenty of good reasons for nervous worry. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Natives who had lost their lives in the white man’s push across the continent rubbed elbows with runaway slaves who never tasted freedom until their last breath. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Further on in the yard, another white man, also with a gun, was supervising a group of about ten black policemen as they rounded up half-naked black men and women from the shacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man with the walking stick tied a blindfold ’round Madame Sabbar’s face then pulled a cloth sack over that so’s we could tell she waren’t seeing a thing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The white man was quite stern with the native. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “What’re you trying to do,” the white man asked belligerently, “kill this man’s sale?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A short, bald white man steps forth from the audience. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The white man has perverted the simple message of love that the Prophet Jesus lived and taught when He walked upon this earth.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The true knowledge,” reconstructed much more briefly than I received it, was that history had been “whitened” in the white man’s history books, and that the black man had been “brainwashed for hundreds of years.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Xhosa played chess with the white man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I had not done so before because I was sure Nathan would not like his wife or his daughter going to a white man, a foreigner. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a black man talking about physical defense against the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As we’re climbing back into them, an older white man comes into the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Bigger’s eyes watched the balled newspaper in a white man’s gloved hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And another time, “He’s upset the white man more than anybody except The Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As he picked it up he wondered what a white man would think seeing him here with her like this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Thing was, usually it would be the white man talking and the colored man listening and nodding. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I still doubted the white man, yet thought that perhaps Harrison had really interpreted something I had said as an insult. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The white man is outside, and he’s going to get you and eat you!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought I would die on the ground there with a mouth full of dirt and blood and a white man cursing and lecturing as he beat me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z His tone was more patronizing than that of a southern white man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z An Indian Affairs commissioner had said, “The Indian must conform to the white man’s ways, peacefully if they will, forcibly if they must.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I looked to see a middle-aged white man across the park slowly fold the newspaper he was reading, get to his feet and amble toward me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But with this tall, thin white man with the gray-green eyes something had happened that had never happened to him with any white man before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The officer was a white man about my height. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The black interpreter stared at me coldly, apparently wondering why I dared speak directly to the white man, and call him “sir,” instead of the customary baas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew the ghetto instinctively extends that trust only to one who had demonstrated that he would never sell them out to the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I hated the Asian character played by a white man. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I chuckled at catching subtle expressions of disdain on several white faces as a black man trounced a white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she went to see Qrce and visited the cave four years later, in the snow, and took the white man’s bones. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the white man knows that,” Mr. Davis said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered what that old fool Josiah had done; it wasn’t any different from Little Sister and that white man. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But truly with the death of that white man a dark sorrow had lain down in his heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The racist white man’s opposition automatically made me know that I did offer the black man something worthwhile. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe there's an embarrassment in it if he admits he's lost to a strange white man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re another one of the white man’s tools sent to spy!” he accused me sharply. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes in their bulging sockets ticked up and down, trying to understand the specter of this huge white man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another white man with a golden star upon his chest walked over. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I was looking in the face of every old white man who passed me, like, Are you my daddy? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If I can understand a dead white man, then everyone else should be able to understand what someone Black has to say. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The driver emerges, a round white man in a green coat and cap. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she was gone; her life snuffed by a white man’s bullet. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z None of them ever had heard the wraps taken off the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That white man stole that black woman’s cells! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The white man turned to the black policeman standing at the opposite end of the table. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad said he wanted us to try our best not to publicly counterattack the black “leaders” because one of the white man’s tricks was keeping the black race divided and fighting against each other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z How was a one- day “integrated” picnic going to counter-influence these representatives of prejudice rooted deep in the psyche of the American white man for four hundred years? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When the vendor hesitated, the white man asked: “What’s the matter—did you steal them or something?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then with sudden clinical interest he observed the white man’s face, for in his eyes he saw a strange, fixed, and withdrawn look of madness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A black woman had her leg shattered and a white man had his head injured in a fight at the Sears, Roebuck parking lot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z James was as ruthless and brutal as any white man but he was the portrait of moderation compared to his younger brother. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He resembled the same white man who had led a raid into the neighbourhood some time ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Hoskins ... he done been shot. Done been shot by a white man,” the boy gasped. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the ticket window, a fat-faced white man scowled down at them, and Alfred was sure he would tell them to get lost. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the very same Chicago block, a white man was dragged from a truck and killed, and a black chauffeur was hauled from his car and murdered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I said that on the American racial level, we had to approach the black man’s struggle against the white man’s racism as a human problem, that we had to forget hypocritical politics and propaganda. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophia and her sister sat at a table inside, near the dance floor, with a white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The one thing which I did know was that the vet was acting toward the white man with a freedom which could only bring on trouble. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As if it were normal for a dead Mexican woman and a black boy to sit laughing and talking in a white man’s kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the front room of my apartment our radio was playing, pouring a white man’s voice into my home, a voice that hinted of a coming war that would consume millions of lives. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The grocer, tall, skinny Mr. Waylan, with his Adam’s apple sticking out above his collar, his fish- belly blue-white skin and oversized fingernails, was the white man I saw most often. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our counselor—Dr. Woodchurch, let’s call him—was a soft-spoken white man who’d gone to good universities and always wore khakis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was saying that we could always blame all of our troubles on the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The mark assured me that he was the only white man who did not feel like that. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But we have told them: ‘This is a white man’s country!’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Harrison was black and so was I; I would ignore the warning of the white man and talk face to face with a boy of my own color. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If the white man wasn’t destined to take this new world, he wouldn’t own it now. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A crowd of black kids gathered, watching my white mother arguing with this white man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Had he learned to make the white man’s tracks? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I decided that I would stop hoping some white man would be kind and make changes from afar. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There was a white man named Philip Johnson who was the son of a white trader on the reservation and so he could speak “Trader Navajo.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that this man, dressed like a white man, was a Navajo made us look around the school yard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not regard the verdict as a vindication of the legal system or evidence that a black man could get a fair trial in a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had helped Mr. Muhammad and his other ministers to revolutionize the American black man’s thinking, opening his eyes until he would never again look in the same fearful, worshipful way at the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The colored men backed off and I did too, but the white man stood there, looking down, and grinned. Uncle Willie, why do they hate us so much?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you think accounts for the success of the white man’s mission in Africa, Richard?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Franklin thought he was saving a fellow white man from the clutches of an 8-5 thug. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I tried to explain that the whites I associated with were sympathetic to the black man’s struggle, but was told that there was no such white man in South Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was terrible for the night-life people, and for those hustlers whose main income had been the white man’s money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw it not as a white man and not as a Negro, but as a human parent. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But because Mr. Elijah Muhammad takes an uncompromising stand with the white man, the white man hates him! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man upon whom he had tried to blame his crime stood before him and he sat waiting to hear angry words. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I ain’t got the intention of letting no man, not even no white man, pull me off from what I got to do, and I need you to help.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The white man and the black boy had seen me loitering in the vicinity of their liquor and had thought I was a hijacker; and they had used me in disposing of their liquor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, my father told me, despite independence, there would continue to be a white man behind every tribal chief, who would have the final say in all matters concerning the reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Once more I had befriended a white man who didn’t fit the stereotype. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Preacher pushed past the red-hair white man and said, “Sir, I just want to start by telling you what a wonderful carnival you have here.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z No matter how high a black man advanced, he was still considered inferior to the lowest white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, a few years ago, the white man from Ibadan came to excavate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The car drove off and I could see the white man looking about anxiously, fearing a trap; or so it seemed to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I would go through the area as a Negro and then, usually at night, remove the dyes with cleansing cream and tissues and pass through the same area as a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Chester simpered and bowed down before the white man. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The white man of South Africa certainly does not know me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacks knew that no white man accused of a similar crime against a black woman would have been convicted at all, let alone sentenced to die. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I said I did not trust no white man because all they wanted was to get a chance to kill a Black man legally and get his wife in the bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bank employees say the robber was a thin white man. Another witness said he thought the man got into a red car.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “It’s not Delphine’s fault she knocked the white man’s newspaper down.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “You shoots that thang off and every white man and boy in the country gunn be in here in no time. ’ Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I wanted to leave the counter, yet he was a white man and I had learned not to walk abruptly away from a white man when he was talking to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I wouldn’t waste any time to start opening their eyes about the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Gotta stay connected to the white man for the ride to the top.... Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The white man shattered the abantu, the fellowship, of the various tribes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why is everybody so sad? None of those people knew that white man,” Jay said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Then why don’t we have his name in the files?” the white man said, continuing to flip through the papers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir Charles and the other white man brung their heads together and started talking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z W'as it because somebody took her baby first to a white man’s house, then to an Indian’s house? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I was glad they didn’t ask if I intended to put on the white man’s uniform, because I didn’t. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them was a white man and another was also light-skinned, maybe Lebanese. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Leaning out of the cloud, looking down, is a wrinkled white man with glasses. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z When Dr. King stepped out of his room, a white man— a petty criminal named James Earl Ray—shot him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Until this is done—and it will be accomplished very soon—the total destruction of the white man is being delayed. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The older white man who was talking to Dr. Rhodes makes his way to the podium to polite applause. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The white man’s fears have been widely broadcast. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The black woman also made the white man’s eyes light up—but he was slick enough to hide it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look—you know I can’t fiddle around with things like that. It’ll be no fun for her when this project gets known and she finds out I’m a white man.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I approached, a tall thin shadow of a white man came toward me from the direction of the quarter. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I did not know when I would be thrown into a situation where I would say the wrong word to the wrong white man and find myself in trouble. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Eh, a white man who is saying that he is a Biafran! Where did you learn to speak our language?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The white man smiled at him and lighted for him his cigarette. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I was hungry and he knew it; but he was a white man and I felt that if I told him I was hungry I would have been revealing something shameful. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the white man had come, and he wanted his cow back. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I stuffed the book into my bag and turned from the counter and walked down the aisle, feeling a physical tingling along my spine, knowing that the white man knew I was really hungry. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No group in the United States can be said to have experienced more privilege, and gone to greater lengths to protect it, than “the white man.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In short, Africans should be trained to be menial workers, to be in a position of perpetual subordination to the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The impenetrable forest and rough river had kept the Cinta Larga so isolated that they had never seen a white man before, and they were shocked to see the men’s beards. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Big Ma was still talking about the nice white man who didn’t have me arrested, whipped, or strung up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z After all, what else could a colored girl like Penelope want from a white man who was so very high above her station? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The white man was barred from attendance—the first time the American black man had ever dreamed of such a thing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Always he would return in his thoughts to this white man who was not insolent or scornful but who was just. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But the white man took the land as you might seize another man’s horse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We both watched as the door to the police car opened and the tallest white man I’d ever seen stepped out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But if Kennedy, a white man—the president of the United States—says that things need to change, surely white people will listen to him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I got my first schooling about the cesspool morals of the white man from the best possible source, from his own women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think a white man killed him, too.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z What kind of white man would willingly submit to the whip? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The white man taking his application gave him the standard literacy tests: “What is the first line of the thirty-second paragraph of the United States Constitution?” he asked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, I looked on the white man not as an oppressor but as a benefactor, and I thought the chief was enormously ungrateful. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I, the white man, got from the Negro the same shriveling treatment I, the Negro, had got from the white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, this white man had come up to him, flung aside the curtain and walked into the room of his life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She said I had to pray for that evil white man, pray every day for twenty-one days, asking God to forgive him and teach him right. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Maggie motioned for me to get on and pushed me toward a seat in which a white man sat looking blankly out the window. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought I would have tears in my eyes over some white man. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Big Bill,” a white man, was a larger-than-life hero to the black community. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The former owner of the cleaners, an older white man named Miles Jackson, fell under suspicion, but there was no evidence that pointed to him as a killer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A white man with a walking stick and a straw hat stood on a box shouting to people to pay a dime to come see this hunting woman. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z He cannot understand how the white man can show the most demeaning aspects of his nature and at the same time delude himself into thinking he is inherently superior. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bigger picture of the white man! Can’t you see that we are not all alike except to white eyes?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Four colored waitresses from Ernie’s Kitchen Shack pointed him out as the “colored boy who was at the table that night with the white man and the white woman.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I stood waiting for the white man to give me the signal that would let me go- “I don’t understand it,” he said through his teeth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a knock behind us, and a white man with red hair sticks his head into the room. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I was a lone white man in a Negro neighborhood. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white people would shake their heads, more proud than sad that it took a white man to survive in their world and that these Indians couldn’t seem to make it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z To be free, we had to fight the white man, shed his blood, vanquish him on the battlefield. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Look at the artifacts being discovered there, that are proving over and over again, how the black man had great, fine, sensitive civilizations before the white man was out of the caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A middle-aged white man with a clipped, sallow face stood looking up at them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The huge white man’s angry shouts did sound like the barking of a dog. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But I plan to use my lips for kissin’ beautiful women, not the soles of some bald-headed white man’s feet. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shorty threw the lever and the elevator went up and stopped about five feet shy of the floor upon which the white man worked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He told him that he had heard that our mark was the only white man colored people could trust. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man now is in Africa digging and searching. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I read in the newspaper that one of our people, a woman named Rosa Parks, had refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While we waited for Cecile to finish speaking with Pa, a white man came by and said how cute my sisters and I were in our matching outfits. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben was placed in a dark cell on the white man’s side of the jailhouse. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw smiles, benign faces, courtesies—a side of the white man I had not seen in weeks, but I remembered too well the other side. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perlstein,” the huge white man who worked in the Special Housing Unit, or the Box, with Sing Sing’s worst inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After a moment I stole a glance at the white man out of the corners of my eyes; he was still staring out the window, his mind fastened upon some inward thought. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no adult among them, except, some distance away, in front of a cage filled with playful spider monkeys, a tall wiry white man with silver-rimmed glasses stood bemused. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She would first say something like, “A white man and no money to speak of. My parents will be scandalized.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Bigger was afraid of robbing a white man and he knew that Gus was afraid, too. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The white man had poked in the shovel to clear the air passage and had raked them out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Here,” the white man said, extending a five-dollar bill to the boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wondering why a Black girl was getting out of a white man’s car. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “While Christians kneel before a white man! They are the flunkies of a foreign god. They are the nightmare of all non-white people.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I started toward Tess and the white man who had just tied a rope around her neck, fastening her into the line, saw me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I grew guilty at the realization that the white man might have thought so too. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought this would be when the cap’n let this man know what he thought of the disrespectful way he answered a white man’s questions. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z “How come? You scared ’cause he’s a white man?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But inevitably, the black masses started realizing they had been smoothly hoaxed again by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a white man who did the recording. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew how to talk to a white man too and did the same when he waved our wagon over closer. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But their role in my life was a distant one, and I thought little if at all about the white man in general or relations between my own people and these curious and remote figures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Buckley stood up; the other white man rose and held out the papers for him to sign. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I knew the reason: the white man signed their paychecks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "Give him a gun and let him go out there and shoot a white man dead. Then we'll trust him." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The red-faced white man came back with a foreman, and took charge of everything. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We two black boys, each working for ten dollars a week, stood staring at each other, thinking, comparing the motives of the absent white man, each asking himself if he could believe the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She shivered as a harried-looking white man boarded the trolley right through the closed door, his suit torn and bloody, his hat missing entirely. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I was in no mood to answer some white man’s stupid inevitable questions: “What are you doing here? Who’s your master?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It was just another one of die “liberal North” actions that didn’t help Harlem to love the white man any. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z All he can see is that the white man wants to hold him down—to make him live up to his responsibilities as a taxpayer and soldier, while denying him the privileges of a citizen. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man has perpetrated upon himself, as well as upon the black man, so gigantic a fraud that he has put himself into a crack. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined two others standing alongside a white man by the entrance gate to one of the yards. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I wove a tale of a group of black boys trespassing upon the property of a white man and the lynching that followed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The first driver was a tall white man with a straw hat, gray-whiskered and as impassive as a wall of rock. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But he felt so out of place there—like a white man working at Afro Sheen headquarters, he liked to say—that he quit. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There is one man among them who is not quite a native, though not quite a white man either. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A few days later a tall white man with a gleaming star on his chest and a gun on his hip came to the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how the white man thrust himself into the position of leadership of the worid—through the use of naked physical power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was learning to write her name in Zhaganashimowin, the white man’s language, and she taught Omakayas the things she learned. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I realized that though I was well dressed for a Negro, my appearance looked shabby for a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “His success among the white man never has made him lose touch with black reality,” Malcolm X said of Parks once. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have the Klan and the white man always on our backs,” she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We led the white man to the liquor; he unstoppered it and smelt it, then tasted the wetness on the cork. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a white man, with a face that spoke of hard times. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must keep your community as clean as the white man’s community. You must keep up your home as well as he does...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the white man was running up the steps two at a time, without looking, and they collided with such force that Doctor Copeland was left sick and breathless. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn’t demonstrating any “non-violence.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Look at this very most certain white man, I thought. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange to pause before a crowded newsstand and buy a newspaper without having to wait until a white man was served. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z As far as I was concerned, he might as well have been another white man, a Boer preferably, for he seemed so hopelessly out of touch with reality—my reality, his reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An elderly white man in a tennis outfit came up to me as I was taking a sip of water. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen a white man so close before, and so I looked my fill. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In the first encounter, we exchanged fire with a white man of the house, son or servant, possessed of a pistol and fowling-piece. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Pilate said she took the white man’s bones and didn’t even look for the gold. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Over by the truck another white man kept looking at his watch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We all put our heads down as that red-dog white man yelped and roared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite warnings that the American public would not accept a white man playing piano for a black singer, Anderson decided to return to America with her Finnish accompanist, Kosti Vehanen. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Someone—a white man—went into the store and we paused in our talk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened the door and the white man stepped out and looked back at Shorty as he went toward his office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And another white man that was picking up a full-growned elephant and holding it over his head like he was ’bout to toss it into the next county! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I moved on to a white man in a white coat standing nearby, a needle in his hand. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he saw Mr. Dalton and another white man standing at the far end of the basement; in the red shadows their faces were white discs of danger floating still in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At other times, he would end an attack upon the white man and, watching me take the notes, exclaim. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The vendor looked at me, puzzled, as though he did not wish to unload such a baggage on the generous white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was he a black or a white man?” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You boys bring this can to my car,” the white man said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all colored men; I never saw a white man working Grampa’s fields. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I thought, seeing a white man run inside the building as the policemen dashed from their cars and came running up. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I, too, rejoiced along with everybody— simply because a black man had finally “beaten to death” a white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did he hesitate to accuse a white man of stealing but not a Mexican or an Indian? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if he thought himself the only one privileged to address the white man as “sir,” and I had infringed on that prerogative. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a way the Olinka can show they still have their own ' ways, said Olivia, even though the white man has taken everything else. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The elderly woman he greeted looked completely indifferent, as though it was often that an Igbo-speaking white man came in to ask about her relative. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z My serving is about half that of the white man in front of me, my plate hammered tin instead of the stoneware. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I said that the white man’s efforts to make my name poison actually succeeded only in making millions of black people regard me like Joe Louis. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z She might never have noticed him if a white man with silver hair had not stood behind her and if the ticket seller had not signaled to the white man to come forward. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He pleaded that an exception be made in my case, but the white man was adamant. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Shorty sang in a low mumble, smiling, rolling his eyes, looking at the white man roguishly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then another white man Walter had never heard of, Joe Hightower, took the stand and said that he had seen the truck at the cleaners, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “That white man hard to get along with.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man laughed softly, jingled some coins in his pocket, took out one and thumped it to the floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “For robbing a white man’s store, black girl. That’s what for.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He gazed at me and I had no doubt he thought I was either a tremendous liar for claiming authorship of a white man’s book or that I was confessing something to him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like Granny got hers. From a white man.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Like he also told me, I don’t judge nobody, but no reason ever came up to put my signature with a white man in any dealings before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I watched brothers entwining themselves in the economic clutches of the white man who went home every night with another bag of the money drained out of the ghetto. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man’s brains that today explore space should have told the slavemaster that any slave, if he is educated, will no longer fear his master. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If a white man had sought to keep us from obtaining a job, or enjoying the rights of citizenship, we would have bowed silently to his power. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I read, I saw, how the white man never has gone among the non-white peoples bearing the Cross in the true manner and spirit of Christ’s teachings—meek, humble, and Christ-like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a totally different kind of talk with another white man I met in Africa—who, to me, personified exactly what the ambassador and I had discussed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “That civilized white folk wore nice dresses and hats and gathered to watch a white man hang a black man from a tree.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The regent had often told me, “It is not for you to spend your life mining the white man’s gold, never knowing how to write your name.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some years later in Lagos, after Chief told him to find a white man whom he could present as his General Manager, Obinze called Nigel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They both nodded as Coach Hicks walked over to greet the thin white man exiting the car. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z This is what we can expect from the white man’s justice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally a tall, red-faced white man arrived, shot me a quick glance and sat at his desk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched as a lone white man walked out of the restaurant and stood before the crowd, raising his hands for quiet. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The assistant district attorney, a heavyset white man, approached them and asked how he could help. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She became a Hare Krishna or one of those wild religions and later she got married again, this time to a white man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The only other white man on V-south at the time was Elliot Markowitz, a decaying old murderer who smoked too much, got pushed around by young gangsters, and was prone to depression. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The whitest white man I ever saw beckons us, his blue-veined hands shaky, his false teeth overly large in his mouth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Reynolds,” he said to a young white man, “this is Richard.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His confused emotions had made him feel instinctively that it would be better to fight Gus and spoil the plan of the robbery than to confront a white man with a gun. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t wait but a minute afore the white man with the walking stick and straw hat came out on stage and told some jokes that didn’t no one think were funny. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Afore I could do any more worrying, a curtain on the stage got whipped aside and a tall, round white man in a long black cape was standing right in front of us. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I told him how I had found out that all of us who had been in the streets were victims of the white man’s society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The crowd was waiting for the white man who dared to bring his white child to school. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mexican bartender had gone home, and now the white man who owned the place was behind the bar, dusting off the bottles with a rag. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mongrelization is already a widespread reality in the South—it has been exclusively the white man’s contribution to the Southern Way of Life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a slight country lilt, like that of the white man at the counter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is a black man caged behind bars, probably for years, put there by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A young white man stood on the beach about seventy-five feet away, gathering rocks, heaving them into the water in their direction. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They were not allowed to vote, to sit on a jury, or to testify against a white man in court. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was Hilda who said to me, “Would you like to hear how the white man came to this planet Earth? ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I would speak to no one for hours, thinking to myself about what the white man had done to our poor people here in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Ignoring them, Callahan turned to listen instead to a white man’s complaint against a black man in the crowd. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ridgeway rode with another man in addition to the boy, a tall white man with long brown hair and a necklace of human ears around his neck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I had to guard against the easy, semiobscene language that Negroes use among themselves, for coming from a white man it is insulting. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But the white man’s “secret” spy often proved, first of all, a black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The third white man and the white woman involved in the kidnapping and subsequent events were never identified or apprehended. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m right with the Southern white man who believes that you can’t have so-called “integration,” at least not for long, without intermarriage increasing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Both me and him kept peeking out the window all through the day waiting for Sir Charles and the rough, red-hair white man to come. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Now, riding here in the powerful car with this white man who was so pleased with what he called his fate, I felt a sense of dread. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As a white man I could not be seen leaving a Negro home at midnight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought of the white man of whom they had spoken. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The tall white man looked at me and my brother, but he said nothing to us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we learned that our great-great-grandfather on the Charles side was owned by his father, a white man, Fern couldn’t stop looking at Big Ma. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Historically, the non-white complexion has evoked and exposed the “devil” in the very nature of the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the American white man was so plagued and obsessed with being “hated.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He just kept his eyes locked on the white man who had shoved him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She spoke against the white man who was her cousin. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It would be good if the white man could help him with Augustus Benedict Mady Lewis, the deaf patient. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He felt that he should have been able to meet Max halfway; but, as always, when a white man talked to him, he was caught out in No Man’s Land. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The most risky and unpleasant adventure outside my home when I was very young was to go grocery shopping where a white man, Mr. Waylans, owned the store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This is what the white man mistook for “jubilant living” and called “whooping it up.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "Everybody knows they found a white man's skin under that girl's fingernails where she had fought whoever killed her." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Most of my mail exposed to me the white man’s two major dreads. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a white man in a business suit and tie playing with some little device in his hands, one of those PalmPilot things, tapping the screen with a skinny pen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Anywhere you may want to get off, look at the white man’s apartments, businesses! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The black man, original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “We go to the white man’s land and the black man’s land, sir,” Father Amadi said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And they paid whatever price the white man asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir” was how Big Ma told us we’d better answer a white man, no matter how young or old he was. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z "Whew!" he said, releasing the white man and shaking his huge head. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I would explain to Makgatho in the simplest terms how the black man was persecuted by the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a little tense, but the young white man’s manner put me at ease and I sat and held my hat in my hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It meant there was always a hand in your business, someone else’s hand, some white man who could make it rain dollars, and then came through sweeping up more than what he dropped. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z You answered everything the white man asked, and more. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew I was back in America again, hearing the subjective, scapegoat-seeking questions of the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Without even perfunctory regrets at the man’s passing, he accused Luthuli of being a patsy of the white man, mainly on the grounds that the chief had accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So this was the white man’s version of integrated sports. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man’s court, but as if everyone else — white and black — was a guest in my court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I bawled in terror as I pointed a trembling finger at the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of us hated and feared the whites, yet had a white man put in a sudden appearance we would have assumed silent, obedient smiles. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And oh, how I yearned for the day when armies of black peasants would invade the white world, and butcher, guillotine, hang, machine-gun, bury alive and drown in hot lead every bad white man alive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger’s right hand gripped the steering wheel and he wondered if he ought to shake hands with this white man. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A bald, stoutish white man went into the store and pulled off his coat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Many blacks in South Africa believed that any effort by the black man to challenge the white man was foolhardy and doomed to failure; the white man was too smart and too strong. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man stood in front of a Negro recreation parlor near the college entrance gates and waved to me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when I had learned the full truth about the white man, I reflected many times that the average burglary sentence for a first offender, as we all were, was about two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Crazy Horse then led his horse forward and held out the rein to the white man. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The white man had a holstered gun slung'low about his waist, as in the movies, and was pacing briskly about, shouting orders and pointing in all different directions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z I felt a kind of joy and hope in the thought that one white man was willing to use his own money to call attention to the injustice we were facing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s so brilliant he confuses the white man with words on paper.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a stinging slap to all of the black workers who had hitched their fortunes to the white man’s union. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He would have believed that we were terrorists and Communists who wanted to drive the white man into the sea. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that it was intended that you should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go behind the white man’s definitions, by never being allowed to spell your proper name. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Once again the white man made those unpleasant noises. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ali was much smaller than the white man, yet he knocked him out cold.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the white man laughed and said we boys couldn’t take a joke, and opened the door.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, a black man with a B.A. was expected to scrape before a white man with a grade-school education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how she would feel if she learned that the Negro before whom she had behaved in such an un-ladylike manner was habitually a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Once when I were sick with the pneumonia I seen God’s face looking out the fireplace at me. It were a large white man’s face with a white beard and blue eyes.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z "The white man's car. I'm driving for him." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And again I’d hear Bigger Thomas, far away and long ago, telling some white man who was trying to impose upon him: “I’ll kill you and go to hell and pay for it.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Then why is he white? This looks like a white man to me.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been contacted by a white man who seemed intensely interested in the case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The white man in charge has never been identified or arrested by the state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was a white man that talked French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I squirm a bit in the chair, because there ain’t no way listening to some old white man drone on for the better part of the evening was in my plans. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z My father spent two months doing hard labour on a white man’s potato farm for his pass crimes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A redheaded white man in a sports shirt stood up, faced the rear and called out to the Negro, “Didn’t you hear the driver? Move out, man.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s got a terrific grudge against you,” the white man explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was embarrassed to ride in the front seat of the car with a white man, especially on our way to his home. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And my father’s constant preaching about how schools were, like Christianity, simply another white man’s tool of keeping the black man down didn’t help much either. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And a white man from Colorado instead of a black man from South Carolina. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The Yankee white man did not know how dangerous his words were. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Each white man who attended the fight dropped his share of the pot into a hat that sat on the concrete floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If a white man became a Negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man began to unlock the door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was right there in prison that I made up my mind to devote the rest of my life to telling the white man about himself—or die. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a white man’s work around here,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every one knows you can talk English and Afrikaans like any white man,” Ndlamini said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I perceived, as I read, how the collective white man had been actually nothing but a piratical opportunist who used Faustian machinations to make his own Christianity his initial wedge in criminal conquests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was angry at the white man, not at racism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A head came into view; a white man climbed out of the trapdoor and stood in the snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I would have never even thought of marrying a white man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was not prepared to hurl the white man into the sea, I would have been perfectly happy if he climbed aboard his steamships and left the continent of his own volition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Am I going to live any longer because you all read the newspaper and then ambush some poor old white man?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The conjurer and the other white man looked at each other. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The Preacher, Sir Charles, and the other white man started walking toward the slingshot lady’s tent with me trailing behind. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z As Radar and I walk briskly past the white man behind the counter, Radar stops when he notices the guy is staring. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z At the door stood the porter and the conductor, a black man and a white man of the South, both crying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Malcolm went on: ‘The white man doesn’t know how to laugh. He just shows his teeth. But we know how to laugh. We laugh deep down, from the bottom up.’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even the white man Professor Lehman, with his words forced out through his nose, sounded as dignified as Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But the Northern white man, he grins with his teeth, and his mouth has always been full of tricks and lies of “equality” and “integration.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Characteristically, as always, the devilish white man lacks the moral strength and courage to cast off his arrogance. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was shocked and said, ‘Then I don’t want to sell my land to that white man who offered seventy-five thousand dollars for it.’ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to explain this in subsequent speeches: “Unless we call one white man, by name, a ‘devil,’ we are not speaking of any individual white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The blond-haired, blue-eyed white man has taught you and me to worship a white Jesus, and to shout and sing and pray to this God that’s his God, the white man’s God. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you realize this is one of the major reasons why America’s white man has so easily contained and oppressed America’s black man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Wordlessly, the white man sat behind the desk and picked up the paper and looked at it in a long silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Nokomis said, sorrowfully, that she had no medicines for this white man’s disease. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad’s two- edged sword was his teachings, which cut back and forth to free the black man’s mind from the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This slavemaster white man already has ‘integrated’ us until you can hardly find among us today any more than a very few who are the black color of our foreparents! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Another white man said that the fingerprints of Bigger Thomas were found on the door of “Miss Dalton’s room.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z To a neighborhood white man who tried to intervene, the gangs spat out a warning: “If you open your mouth against ‘Ragen’s’ we will not only burn your house down but we will ‘do’ you.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was a white man of my height—about six feet tall—with a muscular build. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Ignoring the white man, he spoke to me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat up late at night with my elder siblings and talked about the revolution against the white man while we Little Kids slept upstairs. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, rumors surfaced that a white man from a prominent family confessed on his deathbed to killing the girls. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To think how impressed she would be when he arrived in a white man’s car, driven by the white man himself! Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The white man continued to stare, his mouth twisted with loathing as he turned his head to watch me move away. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Later in the afternoon a tall white man wearing a cool white suit, a Panama hat, and white shoes came toward me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Louvenia tells me how her grandson, Robert, was blinded earlier this year by a white man because he used a white bathroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Another banner showed a white man that was wide as a barn holding hands with a white woman that waren’t much more than a stick with a hank of yellow hair on top. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The stores were examples to help black people see what they could do for themselves by hiring their own kind and trading with their own kind and thus quit being exploited by the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning was when I first began to reappraise the “white man.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the open back door and get that watched feeling again, with a white man’s voice in the room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Wellbeloved was a white man whose office was grander than any I had ever seen; his desk seemed as wide as a football field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I read the neatly typed NOTICE! until I saw that it was only another list of prices a white man would pay for various types of sensuality with various ages of Negro girls. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A year later in Alabama’s capital city, Montgomery, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man and move to the back of a city bus. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z And I knew that any American white man with a genuine brotherhood for a black man was hard to find, no matter how much he grinned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now you soak a while, child. When the water goes down the drain, it will take away all that white man’s evil with it.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most times, I would of worried about hitting somebody, especially a white man like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The judge had earlier appointed an attorney to represent him, a white man Walter didn't trust. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Book after book showed me how the white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the sufferings of exploitation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And, too, they had never held up a white man before. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, learn to use the white man in the same way as he uses you. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some souvenirs from my travels,” the white man said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was ordered to pick up my bundle of clothes and proceed down the hall, to where a white man and a black man, both dressed in white coats, sat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Or this apartment before which a white man stood, dressed in a brilliant uniform? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I told him never to let the white man define his manhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He would not be the first white man to see the underground railroad, but the first enemy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You are helping the white man to regard your body as a garbage can—” Numerous “exposes” of the Nation of Islam have implied that Mr. Muhammad’s followers were chiefly ex-cons and junkies. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z His views about the white man were devastating, but at no time did he transgress against my own personality and make me feel that I, as an individual, shared in the guilt. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But something inside him made him hesitate to say it now that the cattle were on a white man’s ranch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was the “Yankee Clipper” steward, a white man, of course, from Maine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What strange country was I in where a white man offers to share and even apologizes to me for using the same cup that I would? Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked this of the dark boy who had said earlier, at the table, that the white man’s actions proved him to be a devil. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The series of forced migrations, along with such “white man’s diseases” as smallpox, had taken a tremendous toll on the tribe. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then, in the 1920s, when elsewhere in the world the menfolk took a break between wars to perfect the airplane and the automobile, a white man finally did set eyes on the okapi. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The lambskin and the cable-tow used in Masonry today are symbolic of how the nakedness of the white man was covered when he was chained and driven across the hot sand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And as he leaves, we see the non-white peoples returning in a rush to their original religions, which had been labeled “pagan” by the conquering white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I had swallowed the white man’s fear of the Negro, as we were called back then, whole. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In his opinion, he said, a white man who has never even killed a bushbuck for his family was not the expert on which god can protect our village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the strange white man that was going to talk for her got up there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The white man who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not the concept of African Nationalism expressed in the cry, “Drive the white man into the sea.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tate was a tall, heavy-set white man who had come to the meeting in boots, jeans, and a light shirt. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I felt a challenge to plan, and build, an organization that could help to cure the black man in North America of the sickness which has kept him under the white man’s heel. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z And the men now call me Buckra, which is their word for a white man; for having seen me read, they say that I am a white man hidden in a black skin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language,” I concluded. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z So why would black people know what’s going on in the white man’s world? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A white man in charge of a black man’s children! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man, despite his protestations of brotherhood, had made the first dirty suggestion that came to his mind. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The victims, all African Americans, had welcomed an unemployed twenty-one-year-old white man—a stranger to them all—into their Bible study group. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “The white man brought racism into the world. He used it as a basis of conquest. It is always easier to conquer a more humane people.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It is a way the Olinka can show they still have their own ’ ways, said Olivia, even though the white man has taken everything else. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You are from the South and you know that this is a white man's world. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I have pledged on my knees to Allah to tell the white man about his crimes and the black man the true teachings of our Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no right to talk to a white man as he had, not with me to take the punishment . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man was giddy, his former authority easing into his voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A particularly large white man dressed as a butcher, with a blood-spattered apron and a meat cleaver, stopped in front of them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z An older white man in a polo shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap meets Supreme at the doorway with a handshake. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z And today the white man is faced head on with what is happening on the Black Continent, Africa. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That is the way I was raised, by a black woman and a white man. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My uncle was the only one in our family who had ever been to the white man’s school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z From the shadows, the figure of a white man emerged. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be good to write to the white man even if he did not have this reason and these questions to ask. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “A white man and a Negro,” I laughed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Most always we was supposed to look down at the ground when a white man was talking, and this seemed to set Norris off even more. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So let us, the black people, separate ourselves from this white man slavemaster, who despises us so much! You are out here begging him for some so-called ‘integration! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was smiling, thinking how like Jude’s was his craving to do the white man’s work, when two deweys came in with their beautiful teeth and said, “We sick.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma had thrown her Bible at a white man wearing a long black coat and a tall black hat. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z A few kept their jobs to counterspy, telling us the white man’s statements and plans about our Nation. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt foolish sitting behind the steering wheel like this and letting a white man hold his hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew of one white man in Hattiesburg to whom I might turn for help—a newspaperman, P. D. East. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man at Mr. Dalton’s side was squinting at him; he felt that tight, hot, choking fear returning. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Stripped of their manhood, they hated the white man with every fibre of their being. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And then so does he and I hear myself praying, Lord protect me from this naked white man... The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The boy was brought before the chief and asked if he knew us and if he had ever heard us speak parables in the white man’s language. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In order to stay alive black people sold each other to the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not listen to the next speaker, a tall white man who kept dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief and repeating his phrases in an emotional and inarticulate manner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z South African history, of course, looks very different to the black man than to the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Caesar fought like he had struck many a white man, an impossible occurrence or else he would have been in the grave long ago. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He knows by the white man’s look of disapproval and petulance that he is being told to get on his way, that he is “stepping out of line.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His prosthetic is on the floor, a reminder of all he lost while he fought in what he calls “the white man’s war to conquer the world.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She would be so impressed to see him arrive in a white man’s car that she would believe anything he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he turned around and said to Milkman, “But you know what that means, don’t you? If she took the white man’s bones and left the gold, then the gold must still be there.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet, if history could be changed, this book in the hands of a white man—even a sympathetic white man—might be the thing to change it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Now he was standing there saying that he willingly, spontaneously, had helped an old white man lift a huge, heavy crate. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Listen here, white man. It seem to me like you meaning to get me into trouble.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We could never be as good as any white man. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All of us—who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries—were, instead, black victims of the white man’s American social system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It brought back the face of the angry white man who had chased me down that day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “This is a job for a white man with the right training.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "He talked like a white man," I said, "except that his voice sounded southern, like one of ours . . ." "I'll have to investigate him," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They said ’bout the only way to get a white man away from his gun and holster was to take it off of him whilst he was at rest in his coffin. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z During the discussion period, one white man went to the microphone and made the dubious claim that cities with such commissions “suffered more violence than Durham.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Here and there, a white man intervened on behalf of those being hunted down but quickly pulled back when the mob turned its vicious eye on the peacemaker. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Zulu went to war with the white man. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z What did you get for that, for knowing the day you were born into the white man’s world? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As he started down the stairs he saw a white man carrying a large paper sack and he drew close to the banisters so that they could pass each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Only the trader on the coast remains, and even he is not the same white man, year in and year out. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell Mr. Norton that the man was crazy and yet I received a fearful satisfaction from hearing him talk as he had to a white man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that it was intended that you should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go behind the white man’s definitions, by never being allowed to spell your proper name. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Here was a white man asking me instead of ordering me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to impress upon them all the true picture of the Afro-American’s plight at the hands of the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To me nothing, short of a white man, was more terrifying; not even a bogeyman. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z What clear-thinking white man wouldn’t be worried, slaver or otherwise. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The black man in North America was mentally sick in his cooperative, sheeplike acceptance of the white man’s culture. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sound recordings were made of Mr. Muhammad and some ministers, including me, teaching black audiences the truths about the brainwashed black man and the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man stared at them for a couple moments, then said: “Okay, next!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I read how, entering India—half a billion deeply religious brown people—the British white man, by 1759, through promises, trickery and manipulations, controlled much of India through Great Britain’s East India Company. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Rev. J. E. Poindexter, Secretary I walked to the same shoeshine stand in the French Quarter that I had been visiting as a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Civil rights advocates, however, have treated the white man’s suffering as largely irrelevant to the pursuit of the promised land. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They make almost as good money as a white man, but there they go.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing the white man never can give the black man is self-respect! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Xhosa waged a long war against the white man as well, but after experiencing the futility of battle against a better-armed foe, many Xhosa chiefs took a more nimble approach. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When one was ripe—and I could tell—then away from the rest, I’d drop it on him, what Mr. Muhammad taught: “The white man is the devil.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes me feel that I am a black man in a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some way, I had to start telling the white man about himself to his face. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have cashed a traveler’s check without hesitation for a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a black-and-white photo—in a plastic sleeve—of a white man leaning against a super-old-school car with his arms crossed. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Then another one said, “Maybe he thinks he is better than one of us by trying to win that fifty dollars that should of gone to a white man.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he pointed out critically, the white man’s education did not and could not do that. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But then I knew that even when I saw him, I couldn’t accuse a white man of cheating. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I made it clear that was the devilish white man’s idea of kicks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We were taken in to Reverend Harris’s study, where the regent introduced me and I stood to shake his hand, the first time I had ever shaken hands with a white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexandra was a farm originally named for the wife of the white man who owned it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The Sudanese looked skeptical: “But you are a white man!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I grew up with my teeth clamped on a faith in the big white man in power—God, the President, I don’t care who he is, he’d serve justice! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the trader on the coast remains, and even he is not the same white man, year in and year out We know because we send him women. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just watch me get a quarter from the first white man I see,” he told me as I stood in the elevator that morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ad paid for by a white man from a small town in Arkansas. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While standing before a white man I had to figure out how to perform each act and how to say each word. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Man, you ever get right close to a white man, close enough to smell ’im?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And that brought us new attacks from the white man and his black puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As a hedge against bad times, however, Kiowa also carried his grandmother’s distrust of the white man, his grandfather’s old hunting hatchet. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We are speaking of the collective white man’s cruelties, and evils, and greeds, that have seen him act like a devil toward the non-white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the mute Singer, who was a righteous white man of understanding. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Was this the white man wanting to witness his deepest sexual fear? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually it was a shrunken old white man that brought our food, but today it was a Negro. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not a skinny white man,” Darren says slowly, reasonably. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It was when I first began to perceive that “white man,” as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew that the black man had all the strikes against him, that the white man kept the black man down, under his heel, unable to get anywhere, really. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Their lives just seemed complete without the white man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “How much for all of them?” the white man asked, pulling a ten-dollar bill from his wallet. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the white man’s face when he smiled behind the yellow match flame on that rainy night—and peace was in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I had chosen traditional dress to emphasize the symbolism that I was a black African walking into a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And he looked at the white man’s bloody shirt and thought, he told Elizabeth, at the bottom of his heart: “I wish to God they’d killed you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It was about 11:00 a.m., and we passed Mr. Jones, the white man who owned our property, walking to his own church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He said me and Manny were chillin’ with Jared and them because we "need the white man for the ride to the top." Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “A black man beat a white man to death? Where, in this country?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z If I weren’t out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity—because you can hardly mention anything I’m not curious about. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew that the white man’s scientists peered beneath things to understand how they worked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In fact, in the white man’s hands, in the white man’s interpretation . . . where has Christianity brought this world ? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy said he’d never seen a white man work so hard and Sam beamed with pleasure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Tell him we don’t bite,” the white man said, breaking into a laugh. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen this white man once before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He was a tall, rather reddish white man and he had a thick mustache. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was the second white man I would pray for God to protect. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By an hour after dawn the first flats were mounded over, and the foreman, a white man, stood writing Roman numerals in a black book beside the name of each picker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When an African dad buys his kid a present, the last thing he’s going to do is give some fat white man credit for it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z An Osage chief said, “I made peace with the white man and lay down my arms never to take them up again and now I and my fellow tribesmen must suffer.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The white man was hungry and greedy for land, and the black man shared the land with him as they shared the air and water; land was not for man to possess. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A powerful white man,” Coach says, woeful, “jailed an innocent black man. Dumas was disappeared.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z As a result most of the Coloureds were ashamed of their black blood, and often their prejudice against blacks was fiercer than the white man’s. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I just figure he ain’t letting nothing pull him off getting up there to talk to that there white man. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z That’s how it was with a white man and a black woman. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was just in his nature as an American white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The counter was empty of customers and a tall, florid-faced white man looked at me curiously. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Is a white woman really beating up a white man to save me? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The white man called me to come and help too.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The black man in America couldn’t get a decent factory job until Hitler put so much pressure on the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But the white man had lighted his cigarette and smiled and seemed to want to be with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The white man jerked his thumb toward the end of the passage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Finally, unable to trip him up, the white man asked, “Can you read and write?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We had never seen this police officer, a white man, before. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But what have been the deeds of the white man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What shade of black African polluted by devil white man are you? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a huge white man with a red face appeared on the porch above us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you mind shaking hands with a white man?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The hell with you, Shorty,” the white man said, ignoring him and chewing on his black cigar. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want retribution against any white man that ever looked at you the wrong way.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They weren’t about to waste their time with another white man’s game. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z However, even though most of us had seen white men before, none of us had ever seen one like that red-faced white man who yelled at us on my first day at the boarding school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would you do for a quarter?” the white man asked, still gazing off. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go over to that white man and apologize for knocking him down. Go on.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He shook his head and cast his eyes guardedly back at a white man, then dug on again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every one of them imagined the scene, each according t» his own predilections—Sula underneath some white man —and it filled them with choking disgust. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Not by the overseer, or the master, but by any white man who happened to see him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he could return home. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He argued that the American public, particularly in the South, would not accept a white man as Anderson’s accompanist. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Today, in many ways the black man sees the collective white man in America better than that white man can see himself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "You don't go back, see," the white man said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She went on scolding, “Delphine. What do you mean running through the airport, knocking down a white man, causing a grand Negro spectacle for all the world to see?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z And "a white man's world" was just what the Brotherhood was against. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not trust the white man, and neither did I trust Harrison. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked to have grown taller during the short time he was gone and he carried himself more like a white man than an Indian. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “But that is the white man’s law, n’est-ce pas?” he asked. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A few nights ago a drunken white man had come up to him and begun pulling him along the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A white man behind the counter ran up to me and shouted: “A jug of Coca-Cola, quick, boy!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up in Marshall, 1 never would of done that whether it was a colored or a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A dark-skinned man with a kind face walked up to stand beside the big, red white man. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited a moment and then with lightness, paternal amusement, “She ever had it from a white man?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma and her son laughed and laughed over the white man’s evilness and her retributive sin. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "More than ever before, the races need to trust each other. And I want to offer you an opportunity to enter the circle of trust between the black man and the white man." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “A patroller is...was a white man, usually young, often poor, sometimes drunk. He was a member of a group of such men organized to keep the blacks in line.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They had stood for a few minutes on the street corner together, and then the white man had handed him his card. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There was no end to their work, the river of slaves that needed to be driven from their hidey-holes and brought to the white man’s proper accounting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She swore that a white man couldn’t interest her. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to close my mind to Grandmother’s words: “The only thing a white man ever wants with one of our women is personal favors.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, there was a white man standing right in front of us, scowling at Grandma. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In all of the years since, I never have met any intelligent white man who would try to insist that Jesus was white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The City of Brotherly Love black people reacted even faster to the troth about the white man than the Bostonians had. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Mr. Singer would tell you. He a truly kind white man and he not a bit biggity.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z And one felt that if one had had that white man’s worldly advantages, one would never have become as bewildered and as joyless and as thoughtlessly cruel as he. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z But if genes blended with each other, then Jenkin’s “white man” was fundamentally doomed—at least in a genetic sense. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They wanted to serve notice that no matter which white man was elected, he would have to answer to black demands for progress. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Only one religion—Islam—had the power to stand and fight the white man’s Christianity for a thousand years'. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother dragged me outside toward the rear of the building, out of sight of the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But he stressed that he had ho regrets about his crimes, “because it was all a result of what happens to thousands upon thousands of black men in the white man’s Christian world.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A big, rough-looking white man with bright red hair stood up and put his hand on the Preacher’s chest and said, “Show’s over, boy. We’s pulling up stakes tonight and don’t need no more workers.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I saw the white man frowning, my father grinning at me, and those barrels of candy to choose from. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how the white man can say, “They live like dogs,” never realizing why they must, to save themselves, shout, get drunk, shake the hip, pour pleasures into bellies deprived of happiness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father’s brother fought in Burma and came back filled with one burning question: How come nobody told him before that the white man was not immortal?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The white man has always loved the kind of black leaders whom he could ask, ‘Well, how’s things with your people up there?’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My toothache had quieted to solemn pain, Momma had obliterated the evil white man, and we were going on a trip to Texarkana, just the two of us. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z White society hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime the white man has perpetrated on the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There were in fact five visitors, four of them Haitian, but my gaze lingered on a tall, lanky white man in his midthirties as the group joined us on the balcony. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He seemed out of place in a white man’s civilization. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Next to him, a young white man with a pouf of dirty-blond hair stood with one arm wrapped around Lázaro’s shoulder. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The white man who sat beside me rose and I turned my knees aside to let him pass, and another white man sat beside me and buried his face in a newspaper. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “My gampapa warned me, never accept no invitation to get into the hold of a white man’s ship. Said he had a devilish irksome experience once. Visit lasted some few months.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We are speaking of the collective white man’s historical record. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A black man and a white man, side by side. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z This white man believed in him, and the moment he felt that belief he felt guilty again; but in a different sense now. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Her glance moved beyond the white man’s face to the passengers seated behind him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Ain’t you learned to say sir to a white man yet?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She began to associate with Ralph Myers, a white man with a badly disfigured face and lengthy criminal record who seemed to perfectly embody her fall from grace. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir, Mr. Blake, that be fine,” Papa responded in the tone that the colored talked to a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ikner was another white man in his mid-forties, wearing the same outfit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z During the last year or so, in the New York Times, Arnold Toynbee used the word “bleached” in describing the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The one on Influx Control,” the white man said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And then as I got deeper into my own life of evil, I saw the white man’s morals with my own eyes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy had exchanged hard words with a white man and been killed, because he refused to turn down his music. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z At each machine a white man was bent forward, working intently. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Two-thirds of the human population today is telling the one-third minority white man, “Get out!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You may hate the white man, but do not hate God.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No telling about the white man and his newspaper in the airport. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Their hatred of the white man for that effectively was their credo back then: The white man hates us, so we should hate the white man back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw the white man turn and run back toward the Twenty-Ninth Street beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Fists doubled, the white man advanced, kicking the bicycle out of the way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her first-born, Uncle Cheeks, was somewhere in a black penitentiary serving a long sentence for burglarizing a white man’s home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z No. God was a nice old white man, with long white hair, flowing white beard, and little blue eyes that looked sad when people died and mean when they were bad. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Several witnesses had told us that around the time of the crime, a white man had been seen leaving the cleaners. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A big white man with red hair smiled. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the arena of dealing with human beings, the white man’s working intelligence is hobbled. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z You only get action as a black man if you are regarded by the white man as “irresponsible.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm refused to see the impossibility of the white man conceding secession from the United States; at this stage in his career he contended it was the only solution. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Go right on down to the tip of Manhattan Island that this devilish white man stole from the trusting Indians for twenty-four dollars! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited until the white man who had had the lesson left. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z An odd sight, since he was rarely home during the day, and she had not once ever seen a white man enter the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “North Africans to like him? You think he cares much for other Africans? The white man is the only master Balewa knows,” Odenigbo said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The store owner was a gruff white man who, like many of the whites in St. Albans, was on his way out as we blacks began to move in. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But do you brothers and sisters expect any white man to do that? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw how since the sixteenth century, the so-called “Christian trader” white man began to ply the seas in his lust for Asian and African empires, and plunder, and power. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She tucked her braids up underneath a man’s hat, a white man’s hat with a heavy brim. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” whispered a white man whose face was, at that moment, a deep red. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He then ran them back to the table, where he set them before the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, a young white man who looked to be about Amari’s age brought out a small drum and began pounding a beat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Even settlers like Hale who formed close ties to the Osage argued that the white man’s road was inevitable and that the only way for the Osage to survive was to follow it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He walked up to the front, escorted the white man back into the line and then shouted at the ticket seller. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But you are the only white man I have ever encountered who realizes this terrible need of my people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I started to sit down and then saw a white man already there. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My uncle Henry always said, “A white man enjoys his success, a colored man has to pay for it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man clamped shackles on her ankles, rubbing his hands up and down her legs as he did. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom, I’m going to marry a white man,” I prodded her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Never mind I got boxed in the ear by a naked white man this morning. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This rich white man in a fine suit was her father? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Panting and out of breath I shouted as I came through the door, “Mama! Mama! the white man is here, the white man is here!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, how the white man has succeeded in turning brother against brother.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says he doesn’t have money to waste paying for you to get what he calls a useless white man’s education,” my mother replied. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In Smilen Brothers a bearded white man bent nails with his teeth and talked about the poisons in our foods. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They didn’t know that on the other side of the country, a white man named John Moore was about to begin fighting the same battle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Sir, I can’t let you go upstairs. I have strict orders—” “You’re talking to a white man, boy. This medicine is for your master.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z You cannot find one black man, I do not care who he is, who has not been personally damaged in some way by the devilish acts of the collective white man!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man in a train uniform came. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As the ranking white man in charge of the lives of black tenants, the reactionary Oldham felt it was his duty to uphold the immutable Southern social hierarchy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But I think it was also because we were Indians in what was still, even in the Marines, a white man’s world. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether or not the white man of the world is able to face truth, and facts, about the true reasons for his troubles—that’s what essentially will determine whether or not he will now survive. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man in a car had called out those words to him not long ago. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The real reason, according to Elijah, that I failed to realize that the white man was a devil was that I had been too long exposed to white teaching and had never received true instruction. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe the way the cap’n was almost whining when he said, “Ain’t there even no white man I can talk to?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Behind the bar, a white man, bald and shiny, leans against the polished wood counter, eagle eye on the coarse fellow and the girl. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A car pulled up beside me and a young, redheaded white man told me to “hop in.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He often showed up at demonstrations, a short, muscular white man with a face so contorted by hatred that Ann wondered if he was unbalanced. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Army Intelligence soldiers, those black spies in civilian clothes, hung around in Harlem with their ears open for the white man downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We arrived there early, and when the office opened, we were the first the lord of Alexandra—a tall, heavyset white man in a brown suit—saw. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A white man went by on horseback leading two dozen black men chained two by two. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z A couple of years ago a Baltimore shopkeeper named Rusty Barnes was discovered to be a Negro who’d been passing as a white man. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He looks just like the photos of him on the Web—older white man with graying hair and bright black eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was not just because he was dressed like a white man, but because his hair was so short. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ve realised that our freedom will not come from a white man’s change of heart. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an awkward moment with a stranger, a decent white man. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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