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“Race is a social construct. This does not mean that it is invalid or unimportant.”
― Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality

“Challenge yourself to hear their experience without questioning its expression. Avoid being the tone police.”
― Dolly Chugh, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

“It's not white people's job to police the feelings of black people, but as fellow human beings, please rant black people the right to the full gamut of emotions regarding their wounds.”
― Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy

“I didn't know then that I hated school, only that school hated me, so much so that I bent my brown body into a bow to appease it. I broke out in hives, in teachers because I couldn't yet differentiate my love of learning from the hatred of a white supremacist educational system.”
― Felicia Rose Chavez, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How To Decolonize the Creative Classroom

“Literacy is not an end. Literacy should be taught as a means to critical thinking. Knowledge isn't an end. Knowledge is a means to critical thinking. The smartest student is not the student who is the most literate, or who knows the most. The smartest student has the greatest desire to know—to know all the facts and perspectives of human life and of the world.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

“But given that the children are products of the same biological stock, a much more plausible explanation for the differences in performance has to do with differences in parents' rearing and expectations of their first child compared with their younger children.”
― Robert Livingston, The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations

“But for all of that life shaping power, race is a mirage, which doesn't lessen its force. We are what we see ourselves as, whether what we see exists or not. We are what people see us as, whether what they see exists or not. What people see in themselves and others has meaning and manifests itself in ideas and actions in policies even if what they see is an illusion. Race is a mirage, but one that we do well to see, while never forgetting it is a mirage, never forgetting that its the powerful light of racist power that makes the mirage.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“The racism required to uphold white supremacy is woven into every area of our lives. There is no way you can inherent white privilege from birth, learn racist white supremacist history in schools, consume racist and white supremacist movies and films, work in a racist and white supremacist workforce, and vote for racist and white supremacist governments, and not be racist. This does not mean you have hate in your heart. You may intend to treat everyone equally. But it does mean you have absorbed some f****d up shit regarding race and it will show itself in some f****d up ways.”
― Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

“But unless they are walking actively in the opposite direction at a speed faster than the conveyor belt - unless they are actively antiracist - they will find themselves carried along with the others.”
― Beverly Tatum

“The textured side of Jefferson's intention was that he basically believed that sending Black people back to where they came from would make America what it was always meant to be in his eyes - a playground for rich White Christians. Despite the fact Africans were brought to this land. Enslaved. Drained of their abilities and knowledge of growing and tending crops, exploited for their physical might and creativity when it came to building structures and making meals, stripped of their reproductive agency, stripped of their religions and languages, stripped of their dignity. American soil sopping with Black blood, their DNA now literally woven into the fibers of this land.”
― Jason Reynolds, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

“So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended”
― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

“We know how to be racist. We know how to pretend to not be racist. Now let's know how to be antiracist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“There is no such thing as nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Slavery was no accident.
We didn't trip and fall into black subjugation.
Racism wasn't a bad joke that just never went away.
It was all on purpose.
Every bit of it was on purpose.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“I don't know what to do with what I've learned," she said. "I can't fix your pain and I can't take it away, but I can see it. And I can work for the rest of my life to make sure your children don't have to experience the pain of racism." And then she said nine words that I've never forgotten: "Doing nothing is no longer an option to me.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“This work is not comfortable. Nor should it be. Some of what I will share will make you want to slam the book shut and you're probably going to hate me at times, but I urge you to keep going. Any pain and discomfort you feel is temporary and pales into comparison to what Black people and People of Colour often have to experience on a daily basis. On the other side of some of the most difficult realisations and exchanges with others, is huge transformation - that is where the work and change happens.”
― Nova Reid, The Good Ally

“Most important, whenever our children respond with feelings of guilt, or even shame, we can respond with, 'I love you anyway.' The way you respond to your children in the tough times will become their inner voice later in life.”
― Britt Hawthorne, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide

“Then again, not everything is questionable. Facts are not questionable. Not all racial questions are antiracist. Our questions should be premised on the basic fact of our common humanity. To be racist is to assume that racial groups are not, or may not be, equals. This racist assumption ignores the nearly six centuries of power constructing the races and failing to prove that these racialized groups are anything but equals. To be antiracist is to assume that racial groups are equals. These different assumptions lead to different questions. Racist: What is wrong with those people? Antiracist: What is wrong with these racist policies? Different questions lead to different solutions. Racist: changing people. Antiracist: changing policy. The question—if wielded in antiracist fashion—is the most powerful sentence. The question is the seed to knowing. This process of persistent questioning is the key to critical thinking. To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

“To raise an antiracist is to raise a critical thinker. And to raise a critical thinker is to raise an antiracist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

“Caregivers must model a critical home, a critical classroom, a critical community, for kids to defy and question everything that’s questionable.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Raise an Antiracist

“…every moment that I spend in white space reinforces in me a particular (and limited) worldview and experience. But the deeper message being reinforced is that we lose nothing of value by living in segregation. In fact, the white the space is, the more likely it is to be perceived as “goodâ€� and “safeâ€� in the white mind. This is a profound message that we must begin to grapple withâ€�”
― Robin DiAngelo, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

“We divide ourselves into ‘usâ€� and ‘themâ€� based on all sorts of random and insignificant traitsâ€� According to optimal distinctiveness theory, humans are drawn to social groups that simultaneously fulfill two conflicting needs - - a need for assimilation, or the desire for social connection, affiliation, inclusion, and belonging, and a need for differentiation, or the desire to be unique, special, and distinctive.”
― Robert Livingston, The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations

“People are unlikely to take steps toward solving a problem if they don't believe that it concerns them. But assuming there is knowledge of the Condition as well as sufficient Concern, the next question becomes: What do I do to fix it? This is the sage that most individuals and leaders want to jump to *first*, rather than last - - which would be a mistake. It is akin to a doctor prescribing medicine for symptoms (e.g. headache) without performing an examination to better understand the patients' underlying condition and whether the patient will comply with prescribed regimen. If the headache is caused by severe dehydration, for example, and the patient is given ibuprofen to get rid of the headache without any plan for rehydration, then the headache will recur - - not to mention the likelihood of more serious medical problems. In many ways, Strategy is the "easiest" of the five stages.”
― Robert Livingston, The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organizations

“The politicians will try to separate us.”
― Heather McGhee