We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change… — Robin DiAngelo Change 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 Denial 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 Everything 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… — Robin DiAngelo Culture Copy Share Image
Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity. — Robin DiAngelo Complexity 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 Bad 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 Comfort 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 Group 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 Europe 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 Either 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 Ability 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 Human 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 America 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 Education Copy Share Image
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. — Robin DiAngelo Consciousness 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 Consciousness 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 Does Copy Share Image
Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype… — Robin DiAngelo Culture Copy Share Image
“Putting our effort into protecting rather than expanding our current worldview prevents our intellectual and emotional growth.” — Robin DiAngelo Emotional growth 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 Denial 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 Lose Copy Share Image
If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about… — Robin DiAngelo Feedback 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 Deconstruction 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 Elevation Copy Share Image
One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations. — Robin DiAngelo Cannot Copy Share Image
