Vernā Myers Quotes

What we learned after Michael Brown was shot is that police officers are deeply ingrained with erroneous ideas about who's dangerous. Looking at pictures of black kids, they're adding four years to their age, and are told that 'black people are crazy strong and have crazy [levels of] pain tolerance.

Go somewhere where you're the minority. Go to the 'black gay women with disabilities film festival, because this is where you can confront your biases.

Privilege: Once you see it, you can use it to help other people. Interrupt bias on behalf of someone else.

I will be returning to my consulting company working across global organizations and industries, while continuing to advise Netflix.

Biases are the stories we make up about people before we learn who they are. They are especially apparent when things are high-risk, or you have to make quick decisions.

We want the straightest gay people, and the whitest black people. We want that first-generation immigrant to act like they've been chilling in this place forever.