“Why can’t it be simple? If we were only to focus on gender, it would make things so much easier. But of course, it has been this yearning toward simplicity that has racialized feminism as white, that has been responsible for its false universals.”

—  Angela Davis

Difficult Dialogues (2009)

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American political activist, scholar, and author 1944

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