442 Quotes About Privilege

It did not occur to any of them that their decision was born of a colossal sense of entitlement, this notion that they could just step away from yesterday and start tomorrow as if it wasn't a part of the same week, to move beyond memory and roots and language and race into the land of the self-made self, which is another way of saying, America.

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.

It’s a beautiful country, she’s been told, depending on who you are.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

All these faces look happy enough, say Shug. Big and beefy. Eyes clear and innocent, like they don't know them other crooks on the front page. But they the same folks, she say.

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter.

If the writer is a socially privileged person - particularly a White or a male or both - his imagination may have to make an intense and conscious effort to realize that people who don't share his privileged status may read his work and will not share with him many attitudes and opinions that he has been allowed to believe or to pretend are shared by "everybody.

The existence of a privileged class is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the state.