Diversity Matters Quotes

“As people of color, we sometimes resent having to educate others about our experiences and needs. But if we do not speak for ourselves, who will? Why not embrace being the authors and arbiters of our own experiences?”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education

“Staff and faculty of color regularly play an additional role of caring for students of color who have often been the recipients of unconscious bias, racism, and microaggressions on campus.”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education

“Fear doesn’t like strangers, people who don’t look like us or act like us. Fear is terrified of the unknown. Fear makes us think we have nothing to say. It causes us to avert our eyes and check our hearts at the door. Fear seduces us into silence, holds us hostage, stifles opportunity.”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education

“Whether you are white or a person of color, what are some ways you might put yourself into new positions or places, on your campus or elsewhere in your life, to be stretched to engage conversations about race in new ways?”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education

“Issues related to diversity such as racial injustice are everyone’s problem, and thus everyone ought to be part of the solution.”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education

“To stay on the cutting edge, we must be aware of current literature in our fields, use technology, and engage in conversations with others that help sharpen our ideas, broaden our perspectives, and abide in cultural humility.”
― Karen A Longman, Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education