The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

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

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.

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.

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