Asia Kate Dillon Quotes

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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

Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

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.

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

I don't think I know a single person who's a minority who hasn't experienced some form of discrimination at one time or another.

There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. People act as though it isn't an issue, but it's a recurring theme in our lives globally.

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

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.