Quote by Ibram X. Kendi

“Within neo-colonial white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the black male body continues to be perceived as an embodiment of bestial, violent, penis-as-weapon hypermasculine assertion. Psychohistories…

— bell hooks

“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual,…

— Justine Larbalestier

“On their isles of pines in colonial America, White men continued to depict African women as sexually aggressive, shifting the responsibility of their own…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for…

— Esther Perel

“By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a…

— bell hooks

“I also found that what the white man of the South practiced for himself, he assumed to be unthinkable in white women. They could…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“Newspapers play up as sensational every attempt by a Negro to rape a white woman. Yet this white rape of Negro women is apparently…

— John Howard Griffin

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

— Armond White

“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it…

— Bell Hooks

“She knew that women were rarely the centers of such stories. Instead, they were eye candy, arm candy, victims, or love interests. Mostly, they…

— E. Lockhart

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with…

— Ishmael Reed

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou