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“If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.”

Ifs Doe Stills Matter Would Be America Young Particular Color Advantage Skins Privilege Tone Wheels Celebration Whiteness Skin Tone Color Wheel

Author:Eric Liu

“I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.”

Looks Children Boys Four Color Infinite Dust Clay Erase Whiteness Palette

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“no one who has seen an angel ever mistakes it for a ghost. Angels are remarkable for their warmth and light, and all who see them speak in awe of their irridescent and refulgent light, of brilliant colors, or else of the unbearable whiteness of their being. You are flooded with laughter, happiness.”

Light Speak Mistake Color Laughter Angel Brilliant Ghost Awe Remarkable Warmth Unbearable Whiteness

Book:A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

Source: A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives

“As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.”

“By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color.”

Humans Different America Human Beings White Attitude Color Honor Perfection I Realized Whiteness Mecca Yardsticks

Author:Malcolm X

“To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance to trying to grapple with black and brown and other peoples of color's ideas and identities - makes a huge difference.”

Trying Ideas Country Black Community Challenges Differences Practice Identity Color Huge Conscious Resistance Unconscious Brown Celebration Norm Whiteness

Author:Michael Eric Dyson