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Ijeoma Oluo Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“No — as a country, as a county — as a society — I do not think we get to celebrate yet. I do not think Dr. King would want to celebrate either.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, I Don’t Feel Like Celebrating
Tagged: Martin Luther King Jr, Martin Luther King Day, Black Lives Matter
“It would be harmful to our work to not replenish ourselves and care for ourselves.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, Ijeoma Oluo on How Self-Care Fuels Her Activism
Tagged: Self-Care, Black Lives Matter, Activism
“ Is a little erasure better than a lot of erasure? Is a little white supremacy leaked into our anti-racism work better than no anti-racism work at all?”
— Ijeoma Oluo, Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people
Tagged: racism, White Guilt , white privilege, Confronting Racism
“It is no surprise to me that online debate has become the international sport of cis white men.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, When A Woman Deletes A Man’s Comment Online
Tagged: Straight White Men, Politics, News, Online Debate, Hate Comments, Outrage Culture
“The power that you had in order to be able to do this gross shit? It’s power you can use to actually stop this gross shit.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, So You’ve Sexually Harassed Or Abused Someone: What Now?
Tagged: Abuse, Sexual Harassment
“Somebody needs to stop telling these white boys that they can be anything they put their mind to.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, The Anger of the White Male Lie
Tagged: White Men, Male Privilege, Sexism, Male Entitlement, toxic masculinity
“There is a path forward, past denial and scandal and shame. There is a path to genuinely being the better person that you want to be.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, So You’ve Sexually Harassed Or Abused Someone: What Now?
Tagged: Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Abuse, #metoo
“It’s my house and you will get kicked out if you smash my windows, and you also don’t get to track mud all over my floors or change my radio station.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, When A Woman Deletes A Man’s Comment Online
Tagged: Deleting Comments, Internet Hate, Internet Culture, Internet Comments, Quote of the Moment, Hate Comments, Honesty
“Hi! Just a reminder that I'm a single black mom of 2 with ADD, & I was in my 30's working in marketing with no professional writing experience when I started blogging, & now I write full time & have a NYT bestselling book.

You can be a writer. It's never too late. It will wait for you”
— Ijeoma Oluo
Tagged: Writing, Being A Writer, Motivational, writer's experience, Inspirational
“Kanye is betting on anti-blackness to gain him power and notoriety in non-black circles. He is selling out his own people because he knows that non-black people really love to think that black people are oppressed because they want to be.”
— Ijeoma Oluo, How Non-Black People Can Talk About Kanye While Staying in their Lane
Tagged: Kanye West, racism, Oppression, Slavery, Trump
“Yes, this was a decision that was narrow in scope. And if this was not Trump's America, it would have a limited impact. But right now, we have a conservative court, and as long as Trump is in office, it risks becoming even more conservative”
— Ijeoma Oluo, It's Not Just About A Cake
Tagged: LGBT, LGBT Rights, equal rights, human rights
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