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Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets QUOTES

Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets QUOTES

1 " When I realized that Unilever owned almost every product in my house, I started becoming more aware of how often we compromise our values for consumption habits, and I made a commitment to at least be mindful of this in evaluating my promotional opportunities and what products and services I was willing to endorse using my name and brand. "

― , Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

2 " Publicly owning up to a mistake and making an effort to do and be better is the best salve. "

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3 " For all of the alleged benevolence God was supposed to bestow upon us faithful servants, Black people seemed to have been skipped over for centuries. Yet don't nobody in this world love them some Jesus like Black people do. We love him so much, we created an entire genre of music and a style of dance just to augment our praise, because that's what King David did to win his favor. This belief is rooted in a religion that isn't really ours, was forced on us during slavery, reinforced White supremacy throughout the nineteeth and twentieth centuries, and, it must be said, helps to maintain White supremacy today. "

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4 " [Josephine Baker, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith] must be noted as early sex-positive Black feminists, as their overt sexual self-expression challenged not only the standards of decorum for all women of the time but also the stringent guidance of the Black Church, and the demoralized, subjugated sexual identities of Black people postslavery. Their performance of sexuality owned and controlled by them was a radical act of resistance not only against White supremacy, which at the time did not consider rape an offense against Black women but also against patriarchy's prescription for how a respectable woman ought to conduct herself. "

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5 " I ain't shit. You ain't shit. She ain't shit. Okay, great. Let's move forward with authentic growth and progress. "

― , Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

6 " Critics assert that Black Lives Matter is an anti-White terrorist group; the counterargument, "All Lives Matter," is little more than a racist dog whistle that attempts to both delegitimize centuries of claims of global anti-Black oppression and position those who exhibit tremendous pride in their Blackness as enemies of the state. Well, we are enemies of any racist, sexist, classist, xenophobic state that sanctions brutality and murder against marginalized people who deserve to live as free people. "

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7 " Black women have had to navigate rather murky waters to find solidarity and connection with the privileged women, mostly White, who have been the primary focus of sexual-abuse campaigns. It should not have to be this way. Women of all races and classes should be able to come together and fight against the true enemy (hello patriarchy!), but we continue to struggle with finding common ground because of the privileges afforded to some of us and denied others. That leads me to Lena Dunham, who is a fucking mess and not worth another sentence. So that’s that. "

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