Kimberle Williams Crenshaw famous quotes

It's not about supplication, it's about power. It's not about asking, it's about demanding. It's not about convincing those who are currently in power, it's about changing the very face of power itself.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Inspiring #Asking #Faces

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Community #Empowerment #Black

If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Fall #Cracks #Vulnerable

If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Fall #Cracks #Vulnerable

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Race #Racism #Feminism

Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Practice #Class #White

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.
-- Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

#Men #Two #White

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.