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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”
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