Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

- Patricia Hill Collins

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

- Patricia Hill Collins

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

- Patricia Hill Collins

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

- Patricia Hill Collins

Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

- Patricia Hill Collins

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

- Patricia Hill Collins

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

- Patricia Hill Collins