I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race.

- Peggy Mcintosh

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are whit…

- Peggy Mcintosh

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

- Peggy Mcintosh

Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying th…

- Peggy Mcintosh

If my day, week, or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it has racial overtones.

- Peggy Mcintosh

For 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 m…

- Peggy Mcintosh

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

- Peggy Mcintosh

one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred domina…

- Peggy Mcintosh

It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States …

- Peggy Mcintosh