Acceptance Quote by Bell Hooks

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

— Shirley Chisholm

... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly…

— Betty Buckley

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by…

— Bell Hooks

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of…

— Patrisse Cullors

“Women, all women, are accountable for racism continuing to divide us. Our willingness to assume responsibility for the elimination of racism need not be…

— bell hooks

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman.…

— Ruby Dee

“Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color cannot be…

— Linda Stout

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton