501 Quotes About Bias

After it happened I was at a loss for words. Haven't you said this yourself? Haven't you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted, would call you by the name of her black housekeeper? You assumed you two were the only black people in her life. Eventually she stopped doing this, though she never acknowledged her slippage. And you never called her on it (why not?) and yet, you don't forget.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they enlist their IQ on behalf of their instincts.

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.

Лидерите трябва да действат и да оформят културата, която да изкорени предразсъдъците и да създаде среда, в която всеки може ефективно да отстоява себе си.