"Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them."

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Source : Tim Wise (2008). “Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male”, p.28, Soft Skull Press

Tim Wise

#Color Quotes #White Quotes #People Quotes

“I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“Light years beyond anything I expected or dared to hope for!”
“I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.”
“Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.”

Source : "Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 120, 1931.
“I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.”
“If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.”
“And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.”
“Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)”

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