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The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.
Class struggle is inextricably bound to the struggle to end racism.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)
Males learn to lie as a way of obtaining power, and females not only do the same but they also lie to pretend powerlessness.
All About Love: New Visions (2000)
To be in touch with senses and emotions beyond conquest is to enter the realm of the mysterious.
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (2006)
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
Communion: The Female Search for Love (2002)
Creation spirituality replaced a patriarchal spirituality rooted in notions of fall and redemption.
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014)
My thoughts have been shaped by the conviction that feminism must become a mass based political movement if it is to have a revolutionary, transformative impact on society.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)
Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups.
Ain't I a Woman (1981)
I have wanted them to have this simple definition to read again and again so they know: Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014)
The more Lil' Kim distorted her natural beauty to become a cartoonlike caricature of whiteness, the larger her success.
Rock My Soul (2003)
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Rock My Soul (2003)
To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
Killing Rage: Ending Racism (1995)
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)
Today’s fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability.
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014)
Like many teachers I found grading to be one of the most stressful aspects of teaching.
Teaching with excellence and being rewarded for this work by excellent student work is a truly ecstatic experience.
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Rock My Soul (2003)
The fear of being alone, or of being unloved, had caused women of all races to passively accept sexism and sexist oppression.
Ain't I a Woman (1981)