We're seeing more black women saying: 'This is who I am; this is what I've been given.' And it's beautiful. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
It is annoying that some people only see black women as role models to other black women, rather than as role models… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Living under the perpetual and pervasive threat of racism seems, for black men and black women, to quite literally reduce lifespans. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black… — Runoko Rashidi Copy Share Image
When men fail, they get a second chance - as women, and especially as Black women, we have to fight for every… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
I think black women feel an obligatory pressure to be stronger than everybody else, not necessarily to suppress the pain. — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
“I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists… — Carleen Brice Copy Share Image
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
To her credit, Madam Walker discerned that black women wanted to conform to white Victorian models of beauty. She was aware of… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As Black women, there's so much pressure on us to be everything to everyone. We're expected to wear so many different hats,… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm,… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
“Koreans are more inclined to marry black than any other Asian group. So black women, after college, maybe it’s a good idea… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“My grandmother and my two aunts were an exhibition in resilience and resourcefulness and black womanhood. They rarely talked about the unfairness… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
“To Malcolm X, thank you for teaching us the kind of self-love that can never be taken away, To Malcolm X, thank… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything. — Willie Parker Copy Share Image
I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“I truly believe those closest to the pain are closest to the solution, and black women will lead us to the solutions… — The Women's March Organizers Copy Share Image
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
“Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We were about to make love in the same bed I shared with my husband, and the extent of our immorality was… — Jaguar Jonez Copy Share Image
“And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
![“[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.” quote by Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4eb/sadie-tanner-mossell-alexander_admitted_on-being-first-black-woman-to-earn-a-phd_451217.jpg)
![“It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And…” quote by Bill Ayers](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/806/bill-ayers-1848_able_it-wasn-t-barack-obama-per-se-it-was-the_20409.png)
