Eliza

“came to see that the way we are taught to define racism makes it virtually impossible for white people to understand it.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“It was strange, learning the contours of another’s loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

“The racial status quo is comfortable for white people, and we will not move forward in race relations if we remain comfortable. The key to moving forward is what we do with our discomfort.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

“These forces include the ideologies of individualism and meritocracy, narrow and repetitive media representations of people of color, segregation in schools and neighborhoods, depictions of whiteness as the human ideal, truncated history, jokes and warnings, taboos on openly talking about race, and white solidarity.”
― Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism