American Quote by Celeste Ng

As a white person living your life, everything is built for and normalised for you - you have a free pass to live your…

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

Those who politically theorise the artificial concept of 'whiteness' infer that anyone who has white skin cannot escape their unconscious bias. If you object,…

— Claire Fox

In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness…

— Jenna Wortham

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

— Rachel Dolezal

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so…

— Roxane Gay

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

— Robin DiAngelo

No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this…

— Montel Williams

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in…

— Sherman Alexie

The most glaring aspect of white privilege is that when someone is described neutrally - without indicating color or ethnicity - more often than…

— Luvvie Ajayi

White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

— Anonymous