Victoria Monet Quotes

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

I don't hear women who are less privileged thinking they're entitled to everything, whenever they want it. That's a privilege phenomenon, but it is a phenomenon.

I feel like I'm representing fem energy as a bisexual black female.

If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.

In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need to think and talk about race through a lens that looks at gender or think and talk about feminism through a lens that looks at race.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

As a gay person, I'm used to speaking on gay issues. As a black person, I'm used to speaking on black issues.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

I know how difficult it is to be not just a woman, but a black woman, and I know how much we get attacked and our voices aren't heard. I experience it every single day.

As a black woman, I feel like I have a unique experience that we don't often see in media portrayals of the South.

The only people I don't reach on a very personal level are straight white men. They don't really need another entertainer dedicated for them exclusively, so they're fine.

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.