In Hollywood, it's normal to have white men with black women, but the reverse is too threatening. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
Every day Black women are subjected to harsh and racist treatment during pregnancy and childbirth. Every day Black women die because the… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt… — Retta Copy Share Image
The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
We have to reach out to younger audiences. They need to see how they can see themselves as black women. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. — Jim DeRogatis Copy Share Image
There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate… — Blair Underwood Copy Share Image
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters.… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Yet this incarnation of the Black male endangerment narrative does more than ignore women and girls. In a patriarchal society in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there… — Titus Kaphar Copy Share Image
“The more obsessed with personal identity campus liberals become, the less willing they become to engage in reasoned political debate. Over the… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
“Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate… — Danielle L. McGuire Copy Share Image
“Black folk etymological theory posits that motherfucker was a term developed by the children of enslaved Africans in the United States. According… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
I love women - all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
A black woman carried you in her womb for 9 months, then she raised you for 18 years, and now you're out… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and… — Morgan Parker 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
We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't… — Stacy Brown-Philpot Copy Share Image
There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care. — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
