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
There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. — 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
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education. — 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
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
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
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 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
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. — 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
