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
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — 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 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
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
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
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
In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of… — 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
As white people in this society, we are socialized from the time that we're born to see ourselves as superior, to see… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — 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 some people… — 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 serves to… — 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, each white… — 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 Europe, but… — 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 that individuals… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
