No useful movements for change have ever sprung out of fervent guilt.Instead, get angry. Anger is useful. Use it for good.

Colour blindness does not accept the legitimacy of structural racism or a history of white racial dominance.

insinuating that any current majority white leadership in any industry has got there through hard work and no outside help, as if whiteness isn't its own leg up, as if it doesn't imply a familiarity that warms an interviewer to a candidate... [is] wilful ignorance".

It is not right to suggest that every win for race equality results in a loss for white working-class people

We don’t live in a meritocracy, and to pretend that simple hard work will elevate all to success is an exercise in wilful ignorance.

What history had I inherited that left me an alien in my place of birth?

We don’t live in a meritocracy, and to pretend that simple hard work will elevate all to success is an exercise in willful ignorance.

I write - and read - to assure myself that other people have felt what I'm feeling too, that it isn't just me, that this is real, and valid, and true.

The options are: speak your truth and face reprisal, or bite your tongue and get ahead in life.

I have to be honest with myself. When I write as an outsider, I am also an insider in so many ways. I am university-educated, able-bodied, and I speak and write in ways very similar to those I criticise. I walk and talk like them, and part of that is why I am taken seriously. As I write about shattering perspectives and disrupting faux objectivity, I have to remember that there are factors in my life that bolster my voice above others.