Black lives matter Quote by Patrisse Cullors

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

— Jessica Williams

I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present,…

— Cornel West

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

— Katori Hall

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

— Bell Hooks

I don't just have the patriarchy to compete with. I have systemic racism and white supremacy and inequality to compete with.

— Wunmi Mosaku

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to…

— Jewell Jackson McCabe

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

— Shoojit Sircar

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and…

— Bell Hooks

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

— Bell Hooks

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

— Rosa Parks

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

I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree…

— Jessica Williams