African american Quote by Bell Hooks

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

— Gail Collins

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and…

— Bell Hooks

“Blacks complained that most leaders were white, which was true. Feminists complained that most all were men, which was also true. Soon black women…

— Mark Lilla

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

I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by…

— Nora Ephron

“Now, when this first started the movement didn’t really appeal to black women because we couldn’t relate. So how did they get black women…

— B. Love

The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the…

— Ishmael Reed

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent…

— Mao Zedong

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of…

— Bell Hooks

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

— Kirsten Powers

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

— Bell Hooks