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)
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)
Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka and other black male leaders have righteously supported patriarchy. They have all argued that it is absolutely necessary for black men to relegate black women to a subordinate position both in the political sphere and in home life. Ain't I a Woman (1981)
While it is in no way racist for any author to write a book exclusively about white women, it is fundamentally racist for books to be published that focus solely on the American white woman's experience in which that experience is assumed to be the American woman's experience. Ain't I a Woman (1981)