61 Quotes by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.

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

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

The point of feminism is you shouldn't have to be a man to be treated with equal respect.

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.

People with problems are not problem people.