Patrice Dickerson:
CLASS OF 1983
Walnut Hills High SchoolClass of 1983
Cincinnati, OH
Patrice's Story
Patrice is from Cincinnati, Ohio. Patrice's schools include Walnut Hills High School. Patrice later attended University of Cincinnati & University of Michigan.
Music Patrice likes includes Meshell Ndegeocello, Erykah Badu, Miss Jill Scott. Movies Patrice likes include Batman: The Dark Knight. TV shows Patrice likes include The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, The Golden Girls, Brothers and Sisters.
One of Patrice's favorite quotes is:""Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.
"By emphasizing the power of self-definition and the necessity of a free mind, Black feminist thought speaks to the importance African-American women thinkers place on consciousness as a sphere of freedom. Black women intellectuals realize that domination operates not only by structuring power from the top down but by simultaneously annexing the power as energy of those on the bottom for its own ends. In their efforts to reartic...Expand for more
ulate the standpoint of African-American women as a group, Black feminist thinkers offer individual African-American women the conceptual tools to resist oppression." ~ Patricia Hill Collins, 1990, from Black Feminist Thought
"RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET TO JOY!" ~ Alice Walker, 1991 from Posessing the Secret of Joy
âI have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.â ~ Audre Lorde from Sister Outsider
"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the worldâI am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." ~ Zora Neale Hurston, 1928 from "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
"Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face." ~ Carol Moseley-Braun, 1993 iinterview in The New Republic
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