Skepta Quotes

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.

If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.

When you refer to terra entities, you ornately say Mother Nature and Mother Earth. How much honour and care do all of us accord to any of the three - including our real life mother?

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.