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  • There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • I think it's important for the American people to know that the position of originalism isn't itself an originalist position.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • People with problems are not problem people.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • When people talked about O.J. Simpson being race-neutral, that was a race card. It just meant we don't think of him as black. But race-neutral is just like flesh-tone Band-aids. It's not neutral; it's white.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • What many people, I think, don't really understand is how much their rights really turn on the interpretation of the Supreme Court.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity - whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth - to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.
    - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • I think it's useful to recall that a lot of these statutes like 'disrupting the classroom' or 'disturbing the peace' have long been historically used to oppress and criminalize black people.
    - 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