I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

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.

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

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

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.