Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

A commitment to sexual equality with males... is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called 'Hard Out Here.' I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.

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.

I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am.

The personal is political for so many.

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

Let me be abundantly clear: I am black, and I am a woman, and I embrace both of those facts.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.

I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

I am most certainly a feminist.

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

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.