Denial Quote by Robin DiAngelo

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

— J. Philippe Rushton

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate…

— Tim Wise

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that…

— Barack Obama

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

— Sargent Shriver

Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false…

— Jordan Peele

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López

As a country, we are in a state of denial about issues of race and racism. And too many of our leaders have concluded…

— Lani Guinier

The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

— Tim Wise

We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own…

— Michelle Alexander

I do atypical work for a white person, which is that I lead primarily white audiences in discussions on race every day, in workshops…

— Robin DiAngelo

“when you say race doesn’t matter all I hear is you dismissing what I’ve felt, what I’ve lived, what it’s like to be put…

— Jodi Picoult

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it…

— Anthony Daniels