That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

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

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

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.

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

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.