Patricia J. Williams Quotes

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Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre located somewhere on the spectrum between coffee klatch and town meeting, or perhaps between the psychiatrist's couch and the crowd scene at a bad accident.

Patricia J. Williams
Witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

Patricia J. Williams
The very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

Patricia J. Williams
I am so many of the things that many people seemed to think were antifamily—"unwed," "black," "single," everything but "teenage." Add "mother" and it began to sound like a curse.

Patricia J. Williams
To speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

Patricia J. Williams
The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

Patricia J. Williams
The solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.

Patricia J. Williams