Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

My whiteness, economic privilege, able-bodied privilege, family support, and so many other factors shield me from some of the worst possible consequences - often fatal ones - that result from the toxic combination of misogyny, racism, and anti-trans sentiment.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Only a straight white person would have no concept of what visibility is. They've never contended with anything but visibility.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

I am afraid that if you don't find peaceful domestic solutions to our inequality and social problems, then it's always tempting to find other people responsible for our problems.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

You complain that Negroes are a base class. Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

Freedom in America was not always flat. Racism made it un-flat, so that some people had privileges over other people.

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

None of us live single-issue lives... That is why intersectionality is a strength, not a weakness.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

Intersectionality is not easy. It's not as though the existing frameworks that we have - from our culture, our politics, or our law - automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.

In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.