Arcs Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

“There is a big difference between the act of owning up to your part in perpetuating white privilege and the notion that you alone,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity.

— Eileen O'Brien

Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy…

— Bell Hooks

White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially…

— Jack Donovan

“Beloved, to be white is to know that you have at your own hand, or by extension, through institutionalized means, the power to take…

— Michael Eric Dyson

White guilt morally and culturally disarms the West. It makes the First World apologetic. And this, of course, only inflames the narcissism of the…

— Shelby Steele

The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“The most radical action a white person can take is to acknowledge this denied privilege, to say, “Yes, you’re right. In our institutional structures,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“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

Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to challenge the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could…

— Noel Ignatiev

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