Real Friends Talk About Race Quotes

“proximity is not allyship. If our best friend/partner/colleague is gay/Black/Indigenous/a person with a disability or marginalized in any way, we are not necessarily an ally to that community just because we’re close to someone who belongs to it.”
― Hannah Summerhill, Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations

“White supremacy means that the further away one is from whiteness, the less privileges they have.”
― Hannah Summerhill, Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations

“To be able to see white supremacy only when I saw up close someone who’d been victim to it is an example of my own willful blindness and white supremacy’s trickiness—it’s so pervasive and normalized that it almost seems invisible to white people.”
― Hannah Summerhill, Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations

“I value truth, justice, and equity—like most people—but there’s a huge difference between saying so and living like it.”
― hannah summerhill, Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations