Hill Harper Quotes

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.

Men don't hear women.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.