Addiction Quote by Cornel West

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

— Cornel West

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

The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working…

— Malik Yoba

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

— Bell Hooks

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

Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative…

— John Gerzema

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

The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture.…

— Marian Wright Edelman

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

— Jessica Williams

Patriarchal structural oppression operates in such a multiplicitous and slimy way.

— Emma D'Arcy

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and…

— Angela Davis