Potent quotables
Very often Black girls don’t get the opportunity to be in process.
I love being a woman and being a friend to other women should be feminism’s tagline.
And while it is okay to acknowledge that all kinds of women, whether white, Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, cis, gender nonconforming, trans, queer, bi, or straight might have different experiences, it’s not cool to act as though transwomen are in some entirely separate category from the more general category of woman. That is something that feminism needs to be clear on—that it isn’t feminism if all women’s concerns, particularly the most marginalized women’s concerns, aren’t taken seriously.
When it came to books, my mother always obliged.
Didn’t he know who I was? I had never at that point failed at any major endeavor in my life, and I didn’t plan to fail at this one.
I do wish white feminists would embrace the notion, however, that in this new feminist movement we are all trying to build, they aren’t automatically our choice for “strong female lead.”
Black women are often admonished to make better choices. But my mother left Bob when he didn’t treat her right. She almost lost her life for it.
Individual transformation is neither a substitute for nor a harbinger of structural transformation.
My grandmother taught me what it meant for grown women to have an intergenerational gathering and make meaning out of the texts and scripts we have about our lives together.
I refuse to spend my time trying to help these kinds of basic-ass white people
Haven’t white folks learned that Black folks know them far better than they know themselves? Our survival is predicated on our willingness to study you, your impulses, your hard expressions, your laughter (and whether it reaches your eyes), your gifts, and your lies.