White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
unearned suffering is redemptive.
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
"You're a sex icon. " Why? Because I played a vampire in a movie? It's all very unearned. If I had the best freaking abs in the world or if I looked like Brad Pitt does in Fight Club, then cool, but I'm not starving myself.
I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.
