Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

“One of the greatest privileges of whiteness is not to see color, not to see race, and not to pay a price for ignoring…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“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

“Why do you want the world to be black and white? It's not.”

— Harriet Evans

“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

“The challenge with racial privilege is that the recipient does not need to know of its existence in order to benefit from it.”

— Curtis W. (Wallace) Linton

“In ways so closely tied to an individual's sense of self that it may not be apparent, the set of assumptions, privileges, and benefits…

— Derrick Bell

“So, what brings you to this wonderful world of white?”

— Hannah McCoy

“There is a reason that the world is not black and white, for chaos demands color.”

— Liz Newman

“It wasn’t a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority…

— Barack Obama

“Privilege means that it’s easy for white women to do each other favors. Privilege means that those of us who need it the least…

— Lindy West

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

— W. E. B. Du Bois