61 Quotes by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged as a sign of intelligence and critical thinking in white boys.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

Having a monolithic view of feminism is suffocating.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.