“White kids get more resources, more advanced classes and have access to more technology. But Pete says it could all be solved with a vision-board.”— Michael Harriot, theroot.com
“Yeah. I mean, we grew up in Beverly Hills. We definitely had a really privileged life. But my dad was extremely strict. We all had to get jobs. We knew at eighteen we had to be out of the house. We had to pay for everything.”— Kim Kardashian, amazon.com
“Do I find white women attractive or do I see them as some exotic idea I should find attractive? Do I even know whom I’m attracted to or why?”— Christopher Rivas, nytimes.com
“The focus on undeserving minorities receiving unearned benefits at white expense is not an incidental element of modern Republican politics; it is crucial to the GOP’s electoral strategy of dividing working-class voters along racial lines.”— Adam Serwer, theatlantic.com
“I’ve been thinking, lately, my whole life maybe, about who gets to sit down and at what cost.”— Lynn Steger Strong, medium.com
“Spandex: it's a privilege, not a right.”— Rafael Moreu, Emmanuel Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer', Matthew Lillard, imdb.com
“I just wanna live around old people who are not reminding me every day of my infertility and loneliness. A lot of the stuff that happened last year couldn’t have happened if I was happy in my life, right?”— Lena Dunham, thecut.com
“I have the privilege to have a lot of control over my life and what I spend time doing.”— Chrissy Stockton, xsssy.tumblr.com
“Enjoy tonight, because guess what? The women and the blacks and the minorities and the trans people are coming to eat your privilege. We are hungry as hell, because we haven’t had a meal in centuries.”— Jon Brown, Casey, Mary McCormack, imdb.com
“Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind.”— Alvin Sargent, Dr. Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus, Alfred Molina, imdb.com
“It is hard to understand wealth and privilege when you're born to it.”— Jenny Bicks, Jenny Lind, Rebecca Ferguson, imdb.com
“In the American cultural imagination, smart, beautiful women are — still — often white; accordingly, these are the bodies in which we seek and hail the exceptional.”— Rachel Vorona Cote, buzzfeednews.com
“Come on, Lemon. What do we elites do when we screw up? We pretend it never happened and give ourselves a giant bonus.”— Jon Pollack, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“Jake: How does a guy facing a murder charge even get bail? Quinn: By being rich and white.”— Heather Mitchell, Shonda Rhimes, Quinn Perkins, Katie Lowes, imdb.com
“Aha! Come to think of it, that might explain the insistence of the oppressed that the oppressor must not be allowed to camouflage his appearance or confuse the poor by stealing and masquerading in their clothes. Perhaps it is the demand of that primitive integrity of the earth... Or, who knows, it m…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like. Just as in corrupt, totalitarian regimes, those who exercise power over others can do anythi…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like. Just as in corrupt, totalitarian regimes, those who exercise power over others can do anythi…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu