I believe that white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color.

I repeat: stopping our racist patterns must be more important than working to convince others that we don’t have them.

White people’s moral objections to racism increase their resistance to acknowledging their complicity with it.

White comfort trumps my racial discomfort.

It is much more effective to focus on how rather than if our racism is manifest.

I strive to be “less white.” To be less white is to be less racially oppressive.

When white people ask me what to do about racism and white privilege, my immediate response is: Educate yourself. Read, read, read.

The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism