What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't… — Florynce Kennedy Airports Copy Share Image
Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's… — Florynce Kennedy Boards Copy Share Image
I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down. — Florynce Kennedy Fall Copy Share Image
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the… — Florynce Kennedy Encounters Copy Share Image
Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something… — Florynce Kennedy Broke Copy Share Image
“True revolutionary activity, in my opinion, is that which hurts the establishment without undue damage to the person who does the revolutionary… — Florynce Kennedy Without u Copy Share Image
Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day. — Florynce Kennedy Baths Copy Share Image
... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But… — Florynce Kennedy Blow Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Feet Copy Share Image
Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't… — Florynce Kennedy Ass Copy Share Image
I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me. — Florynce Kennedy Esteem Copy Share Image
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear. — Florynce Kennedy Establishment Copy Share Image
Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from… — Florynce Kennedy Bras Copy Share Image
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students… — Florynce Kennedy Black Copy Share Image
... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better. — Florynce Kennedy Ambition Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on… — Florynce Kennedy Feet Copy Share Image
You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of… — Florynce Kennedy Cups Copy Share Image
The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea. — Florynce Kennedy Country Copy Share Image
Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married. — Florynce Kennedy Body Copy Share Image
You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out.… — Florynce Kennedy Cages Copy Share Image
Here I am a woman attorney being told I can't practice law in slacks by a judge dressed in drag. — Florynce Kennedy Attorney Copy Share Image
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage. — Florynce Kennedy Arise Copy Share Image
At my age...I'm going to do what I want and I haven't got time for anything else. — Florynce Kennedy Age Copy Share Image
I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I… — Florynce Kennedy Bigs Copy Share Image
