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« In this way he subtly criticized me for having romanticized something which was really nothing more than terribly hard work. It was then that I began to realize the true meaning of underdevelopment: it is nothing to be utopianized. Romanticizing the plight of oppressed people is dangerous and misleading »

« I became acquainted very early with the widespread presence of an unfortunate syndrome among some Black male activists-namely to confuse their political activity with an assertion of their maleness. They saw-and some continue to see-Black manhood as something separate from Black womanhood. These men view Black women as a threat to their attainment of manhood especially those Black women who take initiative… »

« Because the masses of white people harbor racist attitudes, our people tended to see them as the villains and not the institutionalized forms of racism, which, though definitely reinforced by prejudiced attitudes, serve, fundamentally, only the interests of the rulers. »

« As in the United States, there was a natural inclination to identify the enemy as the white man. Natural because the great majority of white people, both in the United States an England, have been carriers of the racism which, in reality benefits only a small number of them-the capitalists »

« Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn't rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists »

«Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires»

This : « My mother’s drowned silence wasn’t a natural aspect of her character but evidence of my father’s force. »

I'm really enjoying reading this book. A lot of food for thought

The history of drawing on feminist language and theory to sell products has been driven by the idea that female consumers are empowered by their
personal consumer choices—indeed, that choice, rather than being a means to an end, is the end itself. The idea that it matters less what you choose than
that you have the right to choose is the crux of “choice feminism"…