Heather Gadd

“Imagine if instead, the story went something like this: “Jackie Robinson, the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“But The L0w-Down was different. L0hengrin had an incredibly upbeat personality, and an infectious brand of enthusiasm that reminded me of how I’d felt in the early days of the contest. The brief voice over that opened her show seemed to sum up her life’s philosophy: “Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too. But not me. I prefer to lead with my love—to define myself through joyous yawps of admiration, instead of cynical declarations of disdain.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two

“Hillbillies like to add their own twist to many words. We call minnows “minners” and crayfish “crawdads.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“One line of King’s speech in particular—that one day he might be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin—was seized upon by the white public because the words were seen to provide a simple and immediate solution to racial tensions: pretend that we don’t see race, and racism will end.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism