It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawThe empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.
Kimberle Williams CrenshawIf we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw