Rushing ahead to solutions—especially when we have barely begun to think critically about the problem—bypasses the necessary personal work and reflection and distances us from understanding our own complicity
-- Robin DiAngelo (Foreword)

Importance: This statement, which appears in Robin DiAngelo's introduction to the book, helps to establish one of the main principles of the book and its function. Specifically, it is important for people with white privilege to acquire a better awareness of that privilege, and of the realities of white supremacy in general. Without that foundation, all attempts by those people to engage in antiracist work will be misguided and counterproductive.

White supremacy is far from fringe. In white-centered societies and communities, it is the dominant paradigm that forms the foundation from which norms, rules, and laws are created.
-- Layla F. Saad ('What Is White Supremacy?')

Importance: This statement helps to dismiss the idea that white supremacy only applies to small groups of extremists. In the many countries, such...