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

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

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds

Despite long-standing claims by elites that Blacks, women, Latinos, and other similarly derogated groups in the United States remain incapable of producing the type of interpretive, analytical thought that is labeled theory in the West, powerful knowledges of resistance that toppled former social structures of social inequality repudiate this view. Members of these groups do in fact theorize, and our critical social theory has been central to our political empowerment and search for justice.

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