Ask me Quote by Melissa Harris-Perry

I don't identify as white. I have a complex relationship with whiteness.

— Rostam Batmanglij

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

While I acknowledge that it's not my whiteness that has given me my platform entirely... it's part of the reason I've garnered so much…

— Asia Kate Dillon

Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and…

— Robin DiAngelo

Nothing about being white describes who I am.

— Rachel Dolezal

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

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are “universally accepted.”

— Manning Marable

Well, I think that I have a complicated relationship with whiteness because oftentimes, I pass as white, and I recognize that. I would be…

— Rostam Batmanglij

People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will.

— Robin DiAngelo

“I was successful and acceptable and loved because I was—and still am—great at negotiating with whiteness. But that means my white friends often mistakenly…

— Sherman Alexie

I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the…

— Jessica Williams

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

— Robin DiAngelo