Penn Badgley Quotes

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

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

I know how difficult it is to be not just a woman, but a black woman, and I know how much we get attacked and our voices aren't heard. I experience it every single day.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

Nobody calls on black women to find out what they're thinking about because we're always part of somebody else's agenda.

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society’s approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

We live in a society that has a long history of not valuing people of color or women.

While white women and men of color also experience discrimination, all too often their experiences are taken as the only point of departure for all conversations about discrimination. Being front and center in conversations about racism or sexism is a complicated privilege that is often hard to see.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

What does America love more than one white male?

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

American women who know the history of this country will always resent the fact that American men chose to enfranchise Negroes fresh from slavery before enhancing their wives and mothers.

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'..

The South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used, it is plain, For the politician's gain, As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train; But it ain't him to blame -- He's only a pawn in their game.

Champion of White Men's Rule and Woman's Virtue

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

I say stupid white men are always the problem. That's never going to change.

Only a woman can tell you what it's like to be a woman in a society where men are in charge. When you have one demographic that controls the livelihood of minorities, then you're always going to have abuses of power. So this goes way beyond Hollywood.

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.

When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

It must be so nice to be a white male.