“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as its promise. The enemy is not the nameless, faceless, yet ethnically imagined terrorist that we have been encouraged… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them” — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as its promise.… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
