Robin DiAngelo Quotes

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

We all see color. We do. And anyone who says he doesn't see color is confused or isn't telling the truth. Except... and I know how this sounds, but I can't remember any point in my life where I saw other people and thought of their color.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

What I really hoped to do with my work was to at least be able to define my relationship to race.

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story.

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently.'

I'm one of those people who is colour blind to a certain degree. And that doesn't mean I'm not acutely aware of race in our country and abroad and in the world. I know what's going on, and I'm very aware of it.

The very definition of 'blackness' is as broad as that of 'whiteness,' yet we're seemingly always trying to find a specific, limited definition.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

By the time I reached middle school, I fully identified myself not even as biracial but just as black.

I'm biracial; I didn't know that until I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought I was full white, which, honestly, I can't even really say because I didn't see colors.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

White people have basically been encouraged for most of recent history in America to think of themselves as outside of race. White people do have race. They need to understand how their race has been constructed as artificially as everybody else's.

I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.

I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighborhood and I remember.

White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea of race.

When you're a black superhero, you can't erase the notion that you're black. If you're black, living in the community, and you want to change things, there are going to be things that happen. That's true of anybody. I mean, you could use celebrity as a similar metaphor.

I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.

Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

The problem with most liberals - myself included - is we tend to think we're post-racial: that we've got a handle on things because we're not racists.

I actually thought when I met Tina, my former wife, that she was White. Later I found out that she wasn't, and she was actually very much in-tune with her Blackness.