Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against. - bell hooks

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.