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Apologies for the White Privilege. I can't help it. — T.J. Bowes

Privilege is driving a smooth road and not even knowing it. — Ampersand

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it. — James Franco

You're white. You're straight. You're well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you. — Tiffany Reisz

it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism. — Russell Banks

My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me. — Harmony Korine

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain. — Ellen G. White

Project is a self-contained phrase and may or may not be capable of elaboration. — R.K. Narayan

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege. — Teju Cole

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic
to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them. — C.S. Lewis

we should expect the best in people. — Carrie Jones

Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me? — Elton John

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves. — Robert Jensen

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege. — Peggy McIntosh

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there. — Bob Gill

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. — Jane D. Hull

She'd just have to pray that the immortality gracing her blood would drive off any infection. — Sarah J. Maas

I want you to admit that there is such a thing as white privilege, — Jon Stewart

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn't threatening — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist. — Geoff Rickly

It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself. — Melissa Febos

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Clementine learned to feel bad about her white middle-class privilege long before it became fashionable. — Liane Moriarty

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state. — Max Blumenthal

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way. — Nell Zink

I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made. — Travie McCoy

White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. — Peggy McIntosh

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one. — Francis Collins

Being blessed with good health gives you the strength and loving what you do and - is a privilege that keeps you going. So I'm just happy as a lark. — Betty White

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive — Martin Luther King Jr.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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