“One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.”

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

If you believe in equality, you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.

My personal style is a mixture of, like, girly, throwback, like retro ’50s pin-ups, floral, like hippies, like anything feminine, and like flirty.

Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.