America Quote by Gloria Steinem

The problem isn't being a woman, and the problem isn't being Black; the problem is the people out there making it difficult for us…

— Wunmi Mosaku

“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

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

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

— Franchesca Ramsey

Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you…

— Audre Lorde

... 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 feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

— Katori Hall

“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

America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white…

— Shelby Steele

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

I think that it is too common for white feminists to say, 'We want some diversity. Come join our movement about gender, but we…

— Rachel Dolezal