“A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.”— Dorothy Height
“We have to be able to talk about the complex issues of race and gender and class and sexuality.”— Anita Hill
“The colored woman of to-day occupies, one may say, a unique position in this country... She is confronted by both a woman question and a race problem, and is as yet an unknown or an unacknowledged factor in both.”— Anna Julia Cooper
“Intersectionality is a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
“If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, will fall through the cracks.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
“Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow from one direction, and it may flow from another.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
“So, what is intersectionality? It’s basically a lens, a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other.”— Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
“Feminism involves so much more than gender equality...Feminism must involve a consciousness of capitalism, and racism, and colonialism...”— Angela Davis
“The female subject is a site of differences; differences that are not only sexual or only racial, economic, or (sub)cultural, but all of these together and in conflict with one another.”— Teresa de Lauretis
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”— Audre Lorde
“In this country, lesbianism is a poverty — as is being brown, as is being a woman, as is being just plain poor.”— Cherrie Moraga
“The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.”— Robin Morgan
“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.”— Barbara Smith
“The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial, sexual, heterosexual, and class oppression and see as our particular task the development of integrated analysis and practice based upon the fact that the major systems of oppression are interlocking.”— Barbara Smith