“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.

Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

I don’t consider myself a feminist, but I’m down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, ‘What do you want to say?’ it would be, ‘Love yourself more.’

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

I’m an independent woman and a feminist.

I feel like I’m one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it?