Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The better we understand how identities and power work together from one context to another, the less likely our movements for change are to fracture.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Justice Scalia was a person who effectively bludgeoned the life out of the living Constitution, the Constitution that gave us desegregation, that gave us women's rights, that gave us environmental protections and political access.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The way we imagine discrimination or disempowerment often is more complicated for people who are subjected to multiple forms of exclusion. The good news is that intersectionality provides us a way to see it.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or anyone else in this country. The story of black women is critical because those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw