Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
Peggy McIntoshWhite privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.
Peggy McIntoshFor me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.
Peggy McIntoshI was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
Peggy McIntosh