Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

People with problems are not problem people.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Our democracy cannot be left in the hands of those who would rather watch or participate in a train wreck than stop…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

We must all stand against both the continual, systematic, and structural racial inequities that normalize daily violence as well as against extreme…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We might have to broaden our scope of how we think about where women are vulnerable, because different things make different women…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons,…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination,…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

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

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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