Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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.

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.

There are people in our country, in our communities who are being marginalized and discriminated against every single day. I fight for them.

We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.

None of us live single-issue lives... That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.

While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.

Awkwardness comes from the realization that, when you look around the world, it's difficult to identify anyone who isn't either the victim or the beneficiary of injustice.

I struggle with racism every day

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.