Shannon’s Reviews > Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace > Status Update

"Curiosity is the birthplaceof connection" (pg 181).
"Your lack of curiosity can keep others in bondage" (pg 181).

Chapter 9...2 pages to pause and reflect on

"The healing comes when we have proximity to each other's pain--when you hurt, I hurt" (pg 118).

"Healing will never come if you succumb to white apathy" (pg 118).

"The whole of Jesus' ministry was to establish a community so convinced of their Belovedness to God that they proclaim the Belovedness of others" (pg 96).

"I couldn't talk about race or my fears, because the driving narrative was that anytime I or someone else talked about race, we were being divisive"(p 71).
"I wanted White people who loved me to show they truly did by being willing to enter into my pain"(p 75).
"Anything that does not require us to sacrifice for each other is another form of peacekeeping, not peacemaking"(p 95).