Dwight

“While implicit bias is always at play because all humans have bias, inequity can occur simply through homogeneity; if I am not aware of the barriers you face, then I won’t see them, much less be motivated to remove”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“Frye uses the metaphor of a birdcage to describe the interlocking forces of oppression.16 If you stand close to a birdcage and press your face against the wires, your perception of the bars will disappear and you will have an almost unobstructed view of the bird. If you turn your head to examine one wire of the cage closely, you will not be able to see the other wires. If your understanding of the cage is based on this myopic view, you may not understand why the bird doesn’t just go around the single wire and fly away. You might even assume that the bird liked or chose its place in the cage.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“That the Negro American has survived at all is extraordinary —a lesser people might simply have died out, as indeed others have. — DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, The Negro”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“Cry about the hell white people give colored folks,”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird