Patricia Hill Collins - Black Feminist Thought (1990)

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Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Patricia Hill Collins

Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

Patricia Hill Collins

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Patricia Hill Collins

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Hill Collins