Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.

Our failure as a society to properly acknowledge and confront the psychological, social, and political effects of white privilege has perpetuated racial inequality and race-based political resentments.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

I'm a grandmother and like every grandmother, I worry about the safety and security of my grandchildren, but my worries are not the same as black grandmothers.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

It's more dangerous to be black in America...If you are a normal white American, the truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk in a way that you have to be corrected.

Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior.

There's not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.

There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.

Why aren’t Black people this outraged over Black-on-Black killings?.

What whites cannot experience and may never understand is that no matter which side of the bed I chose to wake up on, I would still be a black man in the racially divisive America.

The average white person now feels that anti-white bias is a bigger problem than other forms of racial discrimination.

Some people resented the fact I was trying to break a white man's record.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It's not academic for me.

There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America.

We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.