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TV Series Collected Quotes & .Gifs: Dear White People

In this post, you’ll find collected quotes, and .gifs, from the Netflix program: Dear White People.

ByAmari Allah Hours Posted onMay 7, 2018 9:22 AMJune 9, 2023 9:26 AM Hours Updated onJune 9, 2023 9:26 AM
Coco warning Abigail that what she is saying sounds shady.

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  • Season 3
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In this post, you’ll find collected quotes, and .gifs, from the Netflix program: Dear White People.

Season 1

We can go slow. I just want to go somewhere.
— Chapter I


Sometimes being carefree and black is an act of revolution.
— Chapter V


As soon as you double down on you blackness they will double down on their bullshit.
— Chapter VI


[…] public victims don’t have time to grieve because their trauma is immediately politicized, especially with social media and the 24-hour news cycle. It’s a lot.
— Chapter VI


Don’t deny the world the truth about yourself just because it’s good.
— Chapter IX

Season 2

So the world isn’t acting the way you thought it would. But we don’t see things the way they are, we see them the way we are.
— Chapter 1


I’m a good person who doesn’t pose a threat, but they see me as one, and that is a threat to me.
— Chapter 2


I’m always weird. It’s not really situation-dependent.
— Chapter 3


It’s like the gay First Commandment. “Do unto others as has been done unto you.”
— Chapter 3


You can’t be neutral on a moving train.
— Chapter 4


Having a choice doesn’t make that choice easier to make.
— Chapter 4


[The] only thing they love more than saying they gave one of us a chance is seeing us squander it.
— Chapter 5


Free speech is more important than its content.
— Chapter 7


The truth is often elusive.
— Chapter 8


[the] system [is] not some distant, separate thing. It is literally regular people making decisions. Some decide to enable it and others don’t.
— Chapter 8


It’s easier to fight an enemy you can see.
— Chapter 8


Is this a movement or a primal scream?
— Chapter 8


If it all seems very confusing to you, you’re probably just seeing it clearly.
— Chapter 9

Season 3

You can only study something so long before you get to wondering if you can actually do it.
— Moses | Episode 2 “Volume 3: Chapter 2”


You know, the secret of social media is that people always pretend to be happy about the things with which they are most insecure.
— Rashid | Episode 2 “Volume 3: Chapter 2”


I feel like I’m always chasing […] and the faster I run, the further I am.
— Brooke | Episode 3 “Volume 3, Chapter 3”


I f***ing hate being judged on my demographics.
— Sam | Episode 4 “Volume 3, Chapter 4” 


Soon, the unyielding manipulations of your best efforts by talentless overlords will form a callus over the joy and passion you once had for writing.
— A Person | Episode 4 “Volume 3, Chapter 4”


Realistic is for the ordinary.
— Coco | Episode 5 “Volume 3, Chapter 5”


The only way to win, is to outwork them.
— Penelope | Episode 5 “Volume 3, Chapter 5”


I want equality, f*** tolerance.
— A Person | Episode 6 “Volume 3, Chapter 6”


If you disagree […] because he’s wrong, that’s one thing. But if you’re just going to object because he’s right and you resent it, there’s the door.
— Moses | Episode 6 “Volume 3, Chapter 6”


Sometimes advising means intervening, and sometimes it means staying out of the way.
— Moses | Episode 6 “Volume 3, Chapter 6”


I don’t want someone to write for. I want something to write for.
— Brooke | Episode 7 “Volume 3, Chapter 7”


Get community where you can.
— Michael | Episode 7 “Volume 3, Chapter 7”


[…] sometimes the things you resist are just the things you need.
— Reggie | Episode 7 “Volume 3, Chapter 7”


[…] you are surrounded by allies the minute you decide to be.
— Professor Jerry Skylar | Episode 7 “Volume 3, Chapter 7”


[…] the First Amendment affords the press rights and privileges that don’t disappear because things may become inconvenient.
— Brooke | Episode 8 “Volume 3, Chapter 8”


I was going to drink away a bad day, but now I’m going to celebrate a good one.
— D’unte | Episode 9 “Volume 3, Chapter 9”


How can you miss someone you’ve barely even noticed?
— Rashid | Episode 10 “Volume 3, Chapter 10”


If you ever loved anything, the world will make you angry.
— Sam | Episode 10 “Volume 3, Chapter 10”

.Gifs

Dean Fairbanks trying to make sure Reggie doesn't normalize what he experienced.
“No. The worse thing we can do is normalize this stuff.”
Joelle explaining the plight of being a Black girl with medium - dark skin.
“It’s just that when I look in the mirror, I see someone’s who’s beautiful and talented and… always the second one you think of.”
Coco saying you know her.
Sam asking Joelle, "How do you argue with nonsense?"
“But how do you argue with nonsense?”
Dean Fairbanks asking if he is being read.
Coco warning Abigail that what she is saying sounds shady.
“Careful, this is bordering on shade.”

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