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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

The American vice is explanation.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.

In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.

Hasn’t anyone ever told you? Life isn’t fair.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.