American women Quote by bell hooks

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees,…

— Bell Hooks

Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority.…

— Phyllis Schlafly

“When I offered the word "Womanism" many years ago, it was to give us a tool to use, as feminist women of color, in…

— Alice Walker

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

— Bell Hooks

“I seldom see women want to change their minds based on this propaganda. Most are resolute – they are committed to their course of…

— Willie Parker

“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the…

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I personally feel like the conversation around feminism has advanced a lot. People are starting to realize privileged white feminism isn't cutting it. We…

— Esme Creed-Miles

In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Feminist efforts to grant women social equality with men of their class neatly coincided with white supremacist capitalist patriarchal fears that white power would…

— bell hooks

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

— Kirsten Powers

“Many white women wanted to talk about “unity,” but without acknowledging our privilege; that erodes trust and then it all falls apart.”

— The Women's March Organizers