Kim

“Too often white women decide that when they feel uncomfortable, upset, or threatened, they can turn to the patriarchy for protection. Because they don't want to lose that protection (dubious as it is), they stand by when it's convenient, and challenge it only when it directly threatens them. Yet, they know they benefit from it being challenged, and thus rely on others to do the heaviest lifting. They fail to recognize the conflicted relationship they have with the patriarchy includes a certain cowardice around challenging not only it, but other women who have embraced it.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“Mainstream white feminists will have to confront the racism of white women and the harm it does, without passing the buck to white men.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“The tone policing of respectability ensures that the fight for equality becomes the responsibility of the oppressed.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

“America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else, because it lets us ignore the reality of the impact of bigotry.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot