The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
If you don't have a lens that's been trained to look at how various forms of discrimination come together, you're unlikely to… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
While many Americans agree that 'the system is rigged' economically, few are aware of the ways in which racial inequality has been… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop it. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
Antiracists must acknowledge that patriarchy has long been a weapon of racism and cannot sit comfortably in any politic of racial transformation. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme acts of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women vulnerable. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs,… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power,… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share
