Patricia Hill Collins

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

— Patricia Hill Collins

“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them”

— Patricia Hill Collins

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that…

— Patricia Hill Collins

The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

— Patricia Hill Collins

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

— Patricia Hill Collins

“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as…

— Patricia Hill Collins

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

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

— Patricia Hill Collins

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

— Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

— Patricia Hill Collins

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“The third leg of critical pedagogy's three-legged stool involves something called "affective learning." How students feel in class shapes so much of…

— Patricia Hill Collins

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

— Patricia Hill Collins

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

— Patricia Hill Collins

“Racism didn't magically go away just because we refuse to talk about it. Rather, overt racial language is replaced by covert racial…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“The longstanding effort to "colorize" feminist theory by inserting the experiences of women of color represents at best genuine efforts to reduce…

— Patricia Hill Collins

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered…

— Patricia Hill Collins