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“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.”

— Debby Irving

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

— Sigmund Freud

The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social…

— Jacques Barzun

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

— Wilhelm Wundt

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López

“Hindsight shows us our blind spots and biases; we can recognize ourselves as human beings caught in the cultural mores of a specific time.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race.”

— Susan Cain

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

— James Mark Baldwin

“Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.”

— Victoria E. Bynum

“We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions,…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The white delusion of racial superiority insulates itself against refutation. Correspondingly, on the positive epistemic side, the route to black knowledge is the self-conscious…

— Charles W. Mills

Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free…

— Tim Wise