Peggy Mcintosh Quotes

#1. Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

Peggy McIntosh

#3. Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'..

Peggy McIntosh

#4. I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

Katy Perry

#5. As a white person, I realized I had been taught about racism as something that puts others at a disadvantage, but had been taught not to see one of its corollary aspects, white privilege, which puts me at an advantage.

Peggy McIntosh

#6. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.

Peggy McIntosh

#7. To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

John Ratzenberger

#8. I guess we're kindred souls and that's why we can feel so close to each other.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#9. I am not strong or weak i am exactly what the situation requires(versatile)

Mohlalefi J Motsima

#10. Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.

Peggy McIntosh

#11. I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

#12. Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

Peggy McIntosh

#13. We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

Beth Harbison

#14. White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

Peggy McIntosh

#15. I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

Peggy McIntosh

#16. Now you should have no qualms about leaving that village. That place isn't fit for kappa anymore.

Susumu Katsumata

#17. Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Jeanne Moreau

#18. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

Peggy McIntosh

#19. Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. One question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.

Peggy McIntosh

#21. I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Peggy McIntosh

#22. We're just four guys and we are enjoying what we're doing with Tool.

Maynard James Keenan