iO Tillett Wright Quotes

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us' and 'them,' it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who is an 'us' and who is a 'them' at any given moment.

Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

I wanted to be part of the team.

The system of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society…They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things.

The spirit of the age, as it is revealed to each of us, is too often only the spirit of the group in which the accidents of birth or education or occupation or fellowship have given us a place.

Whenever Americans are free to select their own associates they almost always select associates of their own race.

What everyone knows" is the line between us and them.

There are no human beings whose sense of social identity is fully and exclusively given for themselves by the membership of the working (or any other) class

We’re always talking about blacks as a group and whites as individuals.