The world needs to be better, and because of the power that white people hold in our society, much of that change needs to start with white people.

Talking about and combating racism doesn't 'make everything about race' -- racism makes everything about race, and racism can be found in every part of society.

The idea of being color-blind and of trying to steer conversations away from race are the most manipulative and powerful tools of racism. They allow white people to continue to be comfortable.

The inability of people to accept accountability for doing things that are wrong is in the DNA of America. It's why people can't accept that America was founded on land stolen from indigenous people and that Black people are still feeling the legacy of slavery.

All Lives Matter is directly related to white people not wanting to see color and not wanting to make things about race.

We need to uplift the importance of Black lives because so many people act as if those lives don't count.

Some white people don't assume people of color to be dynamic or layered, because many white people have never had to be dynamic or layered themselves.

A large part of white privilege is that it steers white people toward their cultural comfort zones.

We need to do away with the idea of 'normal,' especially when it's used as a stand-in for 'mainstream' (whether that's white or anything else seen as such). Because at the heart of this difference between normal and abnormal is the belief that these so-called normal things are neutral.