Tarana Burke Quotes

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

The government at all levels is overly represented by white men. That's part of the problem, and I'm a white man.

Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

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

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

A commitment to sexual equality with males... is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.

The personal is political for so many.

Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black women, the term brought to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members but often fail to represent them.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power.

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

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

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

What does America love more than one white male?

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.

One's enemies are always talking about 'post-feminism.' It is a word invented by people who would like to do away with feminism.

As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.