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# Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.

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## About Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.

##  Quotes by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw · Page 2

> ['Formation' and 'Lemonade' speak to experiences that are too under-represented in our culture. But there are costs to certain forms of visibility.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/formation-and-lemonade-speak-to-experiences-that-are-too-under/)

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> [Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/families-community-leaders-and-others-must-create-the-public-will-to/)

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> [I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/i-think-it-s-useful-to-recall-that-a-lot-of-these-statutes-like/)

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> [Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/nonwhite-and-working-class-women-if-they-are-ever-to-identify-with/)

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> [Suspension and expulsion are tied to a host of short- and long-term consequences. For some students, zero-tolerance policies in schools lead directly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/suspension-and-expulsion-are-tied-to-a-host-of-short-and-long-term/)

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> [I have a wonderful, diverse, and young staff at the AAPF who pretty much work around the clock trying to figure out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/i-have-a-wonderful-diverse-and-young-staff-at-the-aapf-who-pretty/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/if-you-don-t-have-a-lens-that-s-been-trained-to-look-at-how-various/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/when-people-talked-about-o-j-simpson-being-race-neutral-that-was-a/)

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> [Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/intersectionality-is-an-analytic-sensibility-a-way-of-thinking-about/)

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> [The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/the-way-we-imagine-discrimination-or-disempowerment-often-is-more/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/it-s-not-about-supplication-it-s-about-power-it-s-not-about-asking-it/)

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> [Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/intersectionality-is-not-easy-it-s-not-as-though-the-existing/)

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> [We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/we-are-a-society-that-has-been-structured-from-top-to-bottom-by-race/)

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> [When we advocate for violence against women to be eliminated on campuses, we say, 'Well, actually, it's not just on campuses we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/when-we-advocate-for-violence-against-women-to-be-eliminated-on/)

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> [We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/we-must-begin-to-tell-black-women-s-stories-because-without-them-we/)

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> [In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/in-every-generation-and-in-every-intellectual-sphere-and-in-every/)

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> [Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/justice-scalia-was-a-person-who-effectively-bludgeoned-the-life-out/)

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> [School is now a place where punishment and discipline are prioritized over serving students and educating them. Any moment where a student…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/school-is-now-a-place-where-punishment-and-discipline-are-prioritized/)

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> [I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/i-think-that-the-same-kind-of-openness-and-fluidity-and-willingness/)

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> [Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/intersectionality-draws-attention-to-invisibilities-that-exist-in/)

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> [While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kimberle-williams-crenshaw/while-white-women-and-men-of-color-also-experience-discrimination-all/)

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## Kimberle Williams Crenshaw by topic

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