Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

by Brittney Cooper

In every part of their lives, young men need access to conversations about what it means to be a man in ways that are not rooted in power, dominance, and violence.

I couldn’t fall apart like I wanted to because, well, I’m a Black girl, and we don’t get the luxury of doing frivolous shit like that.

The system’s response to seeing us bend is to break us entirely.

The struggle by Black people to obtain the free and full exercise of their natural rights and continual forms of structural opposition to these rights have been a fundamental feature of what it means to be Black in America.

Audre Lorde famously said, “If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”

Moynihan Report was to shame Black women for the very mundane magic involved in our making a way out of no way.

The idea that only middle-class, straight, married women deserve to start families is both racist and patriarchal.