Best Quotes From White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Amélie Clements
4 min readNov 20, 2020

Start your day with these 10 bits of wisdom, from Robin DiAngelo’s book on race relations in America White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.

  1. “If I believe that only bad people are racist, I will feel hurt, offended, and shamed when an unaware racist assumption of mine is pointed out. If I instead believe that having racist assumptions is inevitable (but possible to change), I will feel gratitude when an unaware racist assumption is pointed out; now…

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Amélie Clements

Therapist, former philosophy major, avid reader and optimist. I write about love, philosophy, self-improvement, and more.