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“If you are white, and you don’t want to feel any of that pain by having these conversations, then you are asking people of color to continue to bear the entire burden of racism alone.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Regular exposure to microaggressions causes a person of color to feel isolated and invalidated. The inability to predict where and when a microaggression may occur leads to hypervigilance, which can then lead to anxiety disorders and depression.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“Either you believe these disparities exist because you believe that people of color and women are less intelligent, less hard working, and less talented than white men, or you believe that there are systemic issues keeping women and people of color from being hired into jobs, promoted, paid a fair wage, and accepted into college.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“one in three black men and one in six Latino men going to prison in their lifetimes,”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race