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“White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for granted.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Privilege is a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor. There is racial privilege, gender (and identity) privilege, heterosexual privilege,…

— Roxane Gay

“Many white women wanted to talk about “unity,” but without acknowledging our privilege; that erodes trust and then it all falls apart.”

— The Women's March Organizers

White Privilege is being able to take pride in your race, people assuming your poor because your white but you still have dreams as…

— Anonymous

“We tend to believe that accusations of privilege imply we have it easy, which we resent because life is hard for nearly everyone. Of…

— Roxane Gay

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white…

— Peggy McIntosh

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes

The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race,…

— Michael Kimmel