Ijeoma Oluo
Born 1980
From Denton, Texas, United States · Nationality: United States · Writes nonfiction
Quotes
“If you live in this system of white supremacy, you are either fighting the system of you are complicit. There is no neutrality to be had towards systems of injustice, it is not something you can just opt out of.”
On systemic oppression “Being privileged doesn’t mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance you are missing a few very important pieces of the puzzle.”
On privilege “What keeps a poor child in Appalachia poor is not what keeps a poor child in Chicago poor—even if from a distance, the outcomes look the same.”
On intersectionality “For all of the pedestals MLK is now put on, far above the reach of ordinary black Americans, Martin was in his life viewed as the most dangerous man in America.”
Other topics “Our police force was not created to serve black Americans; it was created to police black Americans and serve white Americans.”
On systemic oppression
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Ijeoma Oluo in order
Books by Ijeoma Oluo in the order they were published, from Badass Feminist Coloring Book (2015) to Be a Revolution (2023).
