“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.” MadeCharacterColorHighestChecksAspirationObscureDegradeEndowmentPraiseworthy Author:Charles Lenox Remond
“I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.” PeopleNeedsTryingBelieveI BelieveProcessUnderstandingCommunityWhiteColorAccountsAddHistoricalPrivilegeChecksInteraction Author:Bocafloja
“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."” PeopleWantTryingFormWhiteAttentionResponsibilityColorLike YouConsciousLaysPrivilegePatternsChecksAccounting Author:Bocafloja
“Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do "the Gap act" on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy.” KnowsSaidWantedCrazyColorChecksGapsItemsHoustonWhitney Author:Amy Adams