One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.