Peggy Mcintosh Quotes
Collection of top 19 famous quotes about Peggy Mcintosh
Peggy Mcintosh Quotes & Sayings
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From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
— Peggy McIntosh
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
— Emil Cioran
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.
— Peggy McIntosh
It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same moment and neither can find a way to say it out loud.
— M. J. Hyland
I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.
— Peggy McIntosh
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
— Peggy McIntosh
Unconditional love is hard to compete with.
— Abbi Glines
It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.
— William Stafford
I have other projects to do. I try not to let that documentation interfere with my present day.
— Ian MacKaye
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
— George Berkeley
If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.
— Peggy McIntosh
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
— James Branch Cabell
White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
— Peggy McIntosh
I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
— Steven Spielberg
Pay attention to me.
— Sally Quinn