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Sexism, like every other “ism,” is a willful refusal to not see what is right in front of you.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
One of feminism’s biggest failures is its failure to insist that feminism is, first and foremost, about truly, deeply, and unapologetically loving women.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
White privilege works by making the advantages white people have invisible while making the supposedly 'poor' choices of people of color hypervisible.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
When I talk about owning eloquent rage as your superpower, it comes with the clear caveat that not everyone is worth your time or your rage.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
The truth is that Angry Black Women are looked upon as entities to be contained, as inconvenient citizens who keep on talking about their rights while refusing to do their duty and smile at everyone.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
In other words, white fears rest on the presumption that they are rooted in fact; everyone who is nonwhite is treated as though their fears are the stuff of fantasy.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
When we wonder why white women keep on voting for Republicans, they are doing that because they understand that their caretaking role in their community is to pass down a world in which white men get to be on top.
Treating Black feminism as primarily an anti-racist intervention within feminism continues to render it as a disruptive and temporary event, to be addressed, responded to, and moved on from, back to the regularly scheduled course of things.
Very often many of us have been asked to try to be respectable so that we don't reinforce the "angry black woman stereotype" and I want to say in this book: "Let's say that we're mad as hell. Let's own the truth of that and then let's see it as a thing that actually strengthens us and if we embrace it can become a superpower."
If you say fuck the patriarchy but you don’t ride for other women, then it might be more true that the patriarchy has fucked you, seducing you with the belief that men care more about your well-being than women do. It isn’t true.
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (2018)
Embodied discourse refers to a form of Black female textual activism wherein race women assertively demand the inclusion of their bodies and, in particular, working-class bodies and Black female bodies by placing them in the texts they write and speak.
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (2017)