Andrew Breitbart Quotes

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

This idea of, oh, poor little black person, oh, poor little poor person, oh, poor little woman, oh, poor little indigenous person - everybody's a poor little something! I don't try and please everybody.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

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

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

As a woman of color, I've come to rely on straight white men telling me my experience of the world has nothing to do with my gender, race or class. (Unless something good happens to me, in which case they tell me my gender, race and/or class is exactly why that thing happened).

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

If you're anything other than a white, cisgender, able-bodied dude, people are going to project narratives, imagery, and context onto you that you might not necessarily see for yourself.

When the #MeToo movement started and went viral, it was everyday people all around the world. The fact that the stories continue to be about famous white women has everything to do with who the media places attention on.

Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

I'm not a fan of identity politics.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

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

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.