It Is Essential To Resist The Depiction

Feminism Involves So Much More Than Gender Equality And It Involves So Much More Than Gender. Feminism Must Involve Consciousness Of Capitalism (i Mean The Feminism That I Relate To, And There Are Multiple Feminisms, Right). So It Has To Involve A Consciousness Of Capitalism And Racism And Colonialism And Post-colonialities, And Ability And More Genders Than We Can Even Imagine And More Sexualities Than We Ever Thought We Could Name.

Where Cultural Representations Do Not Reach Out Beyond Themselves, There Is The Danger That They Will Function As The Surrogates For Activism, That They Will Constitute Both The Beginning And The End Of Political Practice.

You Have To Act As If It Were Possible To Radically Transform The World. And You Have To Do It All The Time.

I Think We Need To Insist On A Certain Responsibility, Which People Have - Particularly Those Who Have Made It Into The Ranks Of The Middle Class Because As [ Martin Luther] King Said Many Years Ago In A Sense They Have Climbed Out Of The Masses On The Shoulders Of Their Sisters And Brothers And Therefore, They Do Have Some Responsibility.

It Doesn't Surprise Me That Aspect Of The Black Nationalist Movement, The Cultural Side, Has Triumphed Because That Is The Aspect Of The Movement That Was Most Commodifiable And When We Look At The Commodification Of Blackness We're Looking At A Phenomenon That's Very Profitable And It's Connection With The Rise Of A Black Middle Class I Think Is Very Obvious.