Quotes About Empowerment

What I did at Ole Miss had nothing to do with going to classes. My objective was to destroy the system of white supremacy.

African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.

Ending the school-to-prison pipeline is not a small task and requires detangling the myth of white superiority from our entire education system.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people.

I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter.

I'm proud to be black and white and look the way I look. I'm proud to not speak down on women or glorify things that are unimportant.

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

As a young black woman, I notice at times in the mainstream media framing of the 'me too' movement you see a white female face or a white male face, and that type of questioning and interrogation needs to happen.

During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

Why is she Mrs. C.J. Walker? It really was a matter of her trying to insist that people respect her, because during that time, white people would call any black woman 'Sally.' 'Aunt Sally.' So this was like... you can't call me that.

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.

We met Ferg at one of our shows in L.A. She gave us her number. For the song 'Shut Up' on Elephunk, we needed a vocalist. Someone said 'yo, remember that white girl - we should get her in the studio.' Since then, we've become friends. She's one of the guys now, she isn't just a girl.

The further away you get from being a straight white man, the less freedoms you have to figure out who you are and negotiate what you mean to society.

I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such great taste, mostly because as black women, we've spent a lot of time downloading what a white male narrative is, so in my head, I'm like, 'If a black woman likes it, if she responds to it, then it's probably pretty damn great.'

When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.