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
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 fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility. — Robin DiAngelo Always Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular. — Robin DiAngelo Black Copy Share Image
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education. — Robin DiAngelo Antidote Copy Share Image
People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will. — Robin DiAngelo Color 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
“We don't have to be aware of racism in order for it to exist.” — Robin DiAngelo Aware 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
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
Most people, certainly faculty, believe that if they're for social justice, it's automatically integrated into whatever they do. — Robin DiAngelo Believe 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
As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and… — Robin DiAngelo Lead 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
“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
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
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
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
Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs,… — Robin DiAngelo Only 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
“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
While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn't change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing… — Robin DiAngelo Better 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
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
White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives. — Robin DiAngelo Consciousness Copy Share Image
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people. — Robin DiAngelo Adaptation Copy Share Image
“We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression which benefit us.” — Robin DiAngelo Denial Copy Share Image
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing… — Robin DiAngelo Does 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 Bad 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 Bias Copy Share Image
Whites have not had to build the cognitive or affective skills or develop the stamina that would allow for constructive engagement across… — Robin DiAngelo Allow 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… — Robin DiAngelo Change 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 Challenges 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 Feedback 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
I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided… — Robin DiAngelo Divided Copy Share Image
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of… — Robin DiAngelo Example 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
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. — Robin DiAngelo Becomes Copy Share Image
