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" know, I hardly think of you as Black.” My lawyer is still talking. “I don’t even see color,” she tells me. “I mean, the only race that matters is the human one, right?” It’s easy to believe we’re all in this together when you’re not the one who was dragged out of your home by the police. But I know that when white people say things like that, they are doing it because they think it’s the right thing to say, not because they realize how glib they sound. "

Jodi Picoult , Small Great Things


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Jodi Picoult quote : know, I hardly think of you as Black.” My lawyer is still talking. “I don’t even see color,” she tells me. “I mean, the only race that matters is the human one, right?” It’s easy to believe we’re all in this together when you’re not the one who was dragged out of your home by the police. But I know that when white people say things like that, they are doing it because they think it’s the right thing to say, not because they realize how glib they sound.