“Your job is to be a part of building that critical mass within your sphere of influence. It’s not enough to not be racist. You have to be actively anti-racist, which means using your relationships with other whites — many of whom are recalcitrant and resistant to change — and working on changing the…”— Abeni Jones, autostraddle.com
“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
“James Allen: Do you mind if we stay here awhile, or must you go home? Helen: There are no musts in my life. I'm free, white and twenty-one.”— Howard J. Green, Robert E. Burns, Brown Holmes, Sheridan Gibney, James Allen, Paul Muni, imdb.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
“Is a little erasure better than a lot of erasure? Is a little white supremacy leaked into our anti-racism work better than no anti-racism work at all?”— Ijeoma Oluo, theguardian.com
“Ryan tells me that he has a different personality in Mountain from the one he has in West Bend. A different attitude. He likes both versions, and it’s easy to make the switch.”— Jennifer Percy, esquire.com
“When we are talking, she lets the women around us know I am a reporter, something I’d already told them, and jokes that they should all be very mean to me. She then says she’s kidding and wants everyone to feel welcome and like they are getting the full value out of the day, even the reporters. It’s…”— Madison Malone Kircher, nymag.com
“Native people sigh. We shake our heads and ball our fists. We sing the AIM Song. We hum it. We close our eyes and exit out of the video before it’s done playing. We know it all.”— Nick Martin, splinternews.com
“There is a politic of desire at play when certain bodies and experiences are centered and others aren’t. Meaning, it’s only those who are deemed attractive and sexy and fuckable that are given the headline or allowed to walk the runway, or to simply live.”— Tre'vell Anderson, out.com
“The current social infrastructure of the Internet seems all but custom-built to turn white nationalists into media stars.”— Aaron Miguel Cantú, thebaffler.com
“You see, contrary to popular belief, Black Patience takes time and effort to prepare. Culling Black Patience from the depths of the Black Psyche takes a lot of work and… we’re losing you, aren’t we?”— Jenna Lyles, mcsweeneys.net
“I’ve been thinking, lately, my whole life maybe, about who gets to sit down and at what cost.”— Lynn Steger Strong, medium.com
“White people are allergic to apologizing. Period. They hate doing it, they can’t stand it, and if they have to do it, then it’s going to result in some weird non-apology where they basically deny all wrongdoing and claim that you are the aggressive party for even being offended to begin with.”— Clarkisha Kent, intomore.com
“hello fellow white women! before we complain about street harassment, let’s ask ourselves 1) was this person harassing me, or just saying good morning?2) am i gentrifying this neighborhood? 3) is it necessary to use AAVE when quoting said interaction? (no) thnk u goodnight”— Olivia Gatwood, twitter.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
“White people don’t understand that the reason black people are so good is not always that we’re necessarily more artistically inclined, it’s more because we don’t have the space to suck.”— Kelela, thefader.com
“White Feminism doesn’t appreciate being called WHITE Feminism. White Feminism doesn’t understand why it’s always got to be about race, doesn’t see color and thinks your obsession with race is frankly divisive. Besides, Meryl Streep says we’re all descendants of Africa, anyway. and White feminism swe…”— Rachel Wiley, wusgood.black
“Damon is a liberal bro who stubbornly refuses to listen to criticism by women and people of color have about his friends or his work. He doesn’t want to learn because thinks he already knows everything. His peers are trying to teach him something about sexual harassment and diversity, but Damon inst…”— Rachel Hatzipanagos, thelily.com
“Women had accounts banned from Facebook for responding to male trolls with sentences like ‘men are trash,’ in part because the company classifies white men as a protected group.”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“I know you forget to examine the reflection of your own privilege Or you may be afraid of the truth But I'm not afraid to be honest I'm not afraid to be nasty Yeah I'm nasty like the struggle of women still beating equality into the world, because our rights have been beaten out of us for too long.…”— Nina Donovan, youtube.com