Black Quote by Bell Hooks

“I am a feminist because I dislike everything that feminism implies. I desire an end to the whole business, the demands for equality, the…

— Winifred Holtby

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront…

— Bell Hooks

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to…

— Ani DiFranco

“If we start close to home, we open ourselves out. I will try to show how, in making sense of things that happen, we…

— Sara Ahmed

It can't be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on…

— Maya Hawke

“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture…

— Bell Hooks

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers…

— Kavita Ramdas

I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my…

— Audre Lorde

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

— Angie Dickinson

“Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of our patriarchal…

— Leslie Weisman

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

— Agnes Varda

Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are…

— Bell Hooks