African american Quote by Patricia Hill Collins

The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects…

— Patricia Hill Collins

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

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that…

— Alice Walker

In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need…

— 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

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black:…

— June Jordan

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

— Bell Hooks

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women…

— Ruby Dee

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

For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of…

— Emma Watson

The black woman as a concept has an identity largely based on archaic tropes. This same woman as reality, however, exists at the unfortunate…

— Jerrika Hinton

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

— Pearl Cleage