The advantage man enjoys, which makes itself felt from his childhood, is that his vocation as a human being in no way runs counter... to his destiny as a male. Through his identification of phallus and transcendence, it turns out that his social and spiritual successes endow him with a virile prestige. He is not divided. Whereas it is required of woman that in order to realize her femininity she must make herself object and prey, which is to say that she must renounce her claims as a sovereign subject. It is this conflict that especially marks the situation of the emancipated woman. She refuses to confine herself to her role as female, because she will not accept mutilation; but it would also be a mutilation to repudiate her sex. Man is a human being with sexuality; woman is a complete individual, equal to the male, only if she too is a human being with sexuality. To renounce her femininity is to renounce a part of her humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can ch...ange, then there is hope for America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is this--Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorre...nce the contrary view, which is I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm d...imensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »