Demetrius Shipp Jr. Quotes

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

I'm here to say all lives matter.

I've always said that: 'We as black people, if you want respect, you have to give each other respect.' You can't demand respect from white people and the cops if we don't respect each other.

I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist... anything but a racist.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I still enjoy a lot of support from the black community.

Black people come in so many different bodies, genders, and sexualities, so it's important that we're conscious of that so we can fight for a world that embraces and uplifts black people of every kind. Our voices are powerful and have the ability to make change.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

Make black history every day, I don't need a month

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. To the race or to the sect, which as such attempts to take possession of the politics or the public education of the country, true Americanism says, Hands off!

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.