Robin DiAngelo Quotes

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

The white man believes in equality, but apparently believes the white man is more equal than the Indian.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.

In the U.S., while individual whites might be against racism, they still benefit from their group's control. Yes, an individual person of color can sit at the tables of power, but the overwhelming majority of decision-makers will be white. Yes, white people can have problems and face barriers, but systematic racism won't be one of them.

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

The reason why you were allowed to get away with that in the '60s and '70s is because this country's racist administrative policies were such that rich white kids were getting exemptions. I said no exemptions.

'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

When you allow racial disparity and institutional inequity to affect one part of the country, eventually it's coming back to get everyone.

Many white Americans resist relinquishing the sense of entitlement skin color has given them throughout our national history.

The essence of racism is prejudice coupled with power ... Our primary experience is one of white privilege, even in places where whites may be a minority in the surrounding population.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

Integration in the fields of education, housing, transportation and public accommodations will be of limited extent and duration so long as fundamental economic inequality along racial lines persist.

Modern technical civilization does not seem to be as well handled by the black man as by the white man in the United States

The central question is … whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally in which it does not predominate numerically. The sobering answer is Yes. The white community is so entitled because, for the time being, they are the more advanced race.