Patricia Hill Collins Quotes
Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
Under the color-blind ideology of the new racism, Blackness must be SEEN as evidence for the alleged color blindness that seemingly characterizes contemporary economic opportunity.