Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in.… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“To be born into, to go to school, to study, to learn, to play, to worship, to love, to work and to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Most whites live, grow, play, learn, love, work and die primarily in social and geographic racial segregation. Yet, our society does not… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“If, as a white person, I conceptualize racism as a binary and I see myself on the "not racist" side, what further… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One of the most important misunderstandings for white people to get over to move forward is this idea that racism is a… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“We would often lead workshops in offices that were 95-100% white, and yet the participants would bitterly complain about Affirmative Action. This… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals,… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
For white people, their identities rest on the idea of racism as about good or bad people, about moral or immoral singular… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between agreement and understanding: When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether "I don't… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
It became clear over time that white people have extremely low thresholds for enduring any discomfort associated with challenges to our racial… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
“It has taken me many years of intensive study and practice to be able to recognize and articulate how I am shaped by being… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share
