Lea DeLaria Quotes

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

Because women of color were more likely to be in the paid labor force, they were more likely to recognize discrimination, so they were always leading the women's movement.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I gonna be both?' Because some things inherently affect black women; some things affect you as a woman and not a black person; and some things just affect you as a black person.

Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present day in such a subversive and smart way, you know?

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

'Separate but unequal' didn't work in respect to race, it doesn't work in respect to gender, and it especially doesn't work when looking at the intersection of race and gender.

I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.

A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

And ar'n't I a woman?

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery.

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.