Black Quote by Patricia Hill Collins

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

— Patricia Hill Collins

“as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them”

— Patricia Hill Collins

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar…

— 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

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

— Patricia Hill Collins

“The enemy, however, is not the historically imagined enemy of brown or black youth, more often depicted as America's problem than as its promise.…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

— Patricia Hill Collins

Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type…

— Patricia Hill Collins

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

— Patricia Hill Collins