White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
“The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It doesn't exactly fill me with pride." "For what, being a white man?" "For being a carbon based life-form.” — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist. — Geoff Rickly Copy Share Image
White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white.… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
“As I listen to their jive, I try to find my way around the street mind, the black man's mind. Feeling left… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
You can't be in business with international development and not understand basic issues of colonialism, postcolonialism and white privilege. — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
There is a consciousness as an agent of one's own destiny as a person in America, there are things that can be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“I don't know which hurt more: his rejection, his punch, or my own elder siblings laughing at my pain.” — Dorothy Hampton Marcus Copy Share Image
White Privilege is being able to take pride in your race, people assuming your poor because your white but you still have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be white, or straight, or male, or middle class is to be simultaneously ubiquitious and invisible. You’re everywhere you look, you’re… — Michael S. Kimmel 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
“I believe our education system as a whole has not integrated the histories of all people into our education system, just the… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
“Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Many white people sense that they are being blamed for the sins of white slave owners and imperialists merely through some lineage… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am,… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
We look around at our national politicians, we do not see national politicians who are without fault. And, actually, we see quite… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
