Elders Quote by Linda Sarsour

“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

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

— Kirsten Powers

As a black woman of trans experience, my position in this society leaves me really no choice but to stand for the intersectional identities…

— Indya Moore

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Women of color are called on to fix the racial disparities in their companies, and it's a huge and exhausting undertaking, especially because it's…

— Lauren Wesley Wilson

“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

“A woman of color formation might decide to work around immigration issues. This political commitment is not based on the specific histories of racialized…

— Angela Davis

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

“We are challenging white feminists to be accountable for their racism because at the base we still want to believe that they really want…

— Cherríe L. Moraga Gloria Anzaldua

We as women put ourselves in this situation of feeling like we can’t take a risk, like in order to step out there we…

— Kerry Washington

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color,…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit a fair…

— Irin Carmon