A Quote by Robin DiAngelo

White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.

Robin DiAngelo

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Also Always Fragility Functions Manifest Silence Ways White Withdrawal

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Robin DiAngelo
American - Educator
Born: September 8, 1956

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

Martin Margiela

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

Jose Saramago

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.

Haruki Murakami

White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

Margaret Cho

There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards Islam, rejecting people and alienating migrants - anything can be used to win the next elections. So these are the signs of fragility that is very much there.

Tariq Ramadan

Fragility, violence, and conflict are complex. Fragility is influenced by a wide set of factors, many of which are deeply entrenched, such as high social and income inequality. The lines between criminal, inter-communal, and politically motivated violence are often blurred.

Peter Maurer

The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

Robin DiAngelo

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.

Shoshana Zuboff

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Martha Ronk

White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

Robin DiAngelo

I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

Robin DiAngelo

The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

Robin DiAngelo

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.