Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion. — Kodak Black Copy Share Image
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life.… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“In 1960, never-married mothers accounted for fewer than 5 percent of the children of single mothers; by 2006, they accounted for 43… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“In one study, Hunter found that a lighter-skinned woman earned, on average, twenty-six hundred dollars more a year than her darker sister.… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
“Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black girls are exquisite beauty in… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“Pick that chin up and adjust your crown, Queen! Life has its disappointments and challenges, but you’ve got faith, strength, perseverance, and… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival… — Frank C. Garland Copy Share Image
A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Black Barbie? Nah… I’m an unapologetic Exquisite Black Queen who’s intelligent, creative, courageous, confident, ambitious, and authentic. My beauty is just a… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women -… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
