Tracy

“Racist ideas love believers, not thinkers.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“He thought he was in love with a person, when in fact he was in love with an image projected upon that person. Cheryl was not a real person with needs and desires of her own; she was a resource for the satisfaction of his unconscious childhood longings. He was in love with the idea of wish fulfillment and--like Narcissus--with a reflected part of himself.”
― Harville Hendrix, Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples

“My research kept pointing me to the same answer: The source of racist ideas was not ignorance and hate, but self-interest.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist