Mark Manson Quotes

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

As part of my work, I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I love when white people use their privilege to combat prejudice.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.

I think white women need to wake up and say, 'Not all women are white,' three times in front of the mirror.

You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.

We cannot afford to be color-blind, we have to be color-brave.

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

It's a totally different spiel when I talk at Morehouse. But when I'm talking at MIT? At the University of Cincinnati? I'm telling white people, in order to stop systemic racism, you must first befriend, become a colleague of, get to know intimately, put yourself culturally in the framework of someone who doesn't look like you.

The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There is no national tonic or instant cure.

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

I don't mind the job of saying to white people, "Yes, this is what I think you need to know, this is what I think you've been missing." And it's my job to educate white folks every day.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.