O. T. Fagbenle Quotes

To be white and male is not to be sexist and racist.

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

I was guilty of appropriating when I did a video called 'Hard Out Here.' I was guilty of assuming that there was a one-size-fits-all where feminism is concerned.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

The struggle against patriarchy and racism must be substantively robust and inextricably intertwined.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.

I was ahead of the gender curve, but I wasn't ahead of the intersectionality curve, and I get it now. It's important to me.

That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.