34 Quotes by Barbara Smith

I just can't understand why something like this would happen in the neighborhood. It makes you want to get more locks on the doors.

This helps (the students) in getting over their shyness of talking to adults and (shows them) how they need to open up.

The home was originally owned by the Phelps family. Guy Phelps, who originally owned it, was a veterinarian in Montgomery. Actually he was more like the veterinarian for Montgomery.

The chief advantage I see is it puts the responsibility and flexibility for managing time off in the hands of the employee.

We are certainly damaged people. The question is, finally, do we use that damage, that first-hand knowledge of oppression, to recognize each other, to do what work we can together? Or do we use it to destroy?

Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, disabled women, lesbians, old women – as well as white, economically privileged, heterosexual women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement.

A black feminist perspective has no use for ranking oppressions, but instead demonstrates the simultaneity of oppressions as they affect Third World women’s lives”.