About Quote by Katori Hall

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

— Jessica Williams

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend…

— Bell Hooks

... 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

When I think about women of color and their place politically in the world and culture... they've had two layers of just garbage to…

— Katherine Ryan

Black women have never embraced feminism. They didn't embrace it in the '50s and '60s; they're not embracing it now. That's not new. I…

— Faith Ringgold

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

— Doris Lessing

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly…

— Betty Buckley

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

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about…

— Bell Hooks

Women should not be suppressed because they are women, because they have children and because of men. Then I am a feminist. But when…

— Buchi Emecheta

Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men.…

— Toni Morrison

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

— Barbara Smith