““Audre Lorde once stated, “I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womanness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.” As a woman of color, I find that some feminists don’t seem terribly concerned with the issues unique to women of color—the ongoing effects of racism and postcolonialism, the status of women in the Third World, the fight against the trenchant archetypes black women are forced into (angry black woman, mammy, Hottentot, and the like).””
![“Most of my favorite tweets go completely ignored but most of my favorite tweets are probably really lame or inside jokes between me and my [redacted]. See what I did there?” quote by Roxane Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b6/roxane-gay-520_ignored_most-of-my-favorite-tweets-go-completely_106926.jpg)
![“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms: "To become black is to become an ethnographer who translates and searches around in an effort to understand what it means to be black in North America."…” quote by H. Samy Alim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b7/h-samy-alim-175060_african-american_awad-ibrahim-sudanese-professor-of-educa_1372530.jpg)
