Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated… — Lea DeLaria Copy Share Image
My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions… — Jamila Woods 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
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
Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
“The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know that there is some Black girl out there. So many Black women out there that are watching me right now.… — Doechii 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
We are going to do extensive market research because it is hard for black women to go into stores and get clothes… — Linda Johnson Rice 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
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
'Moesha' is very strong in my brain. The black women on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' are very strong in my brain. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype.… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I wanted to express myself using visuals and also celebrate the beauty of black women, travel, and have amazing opportunities. I also… — Khoudia Diop Copy Share Image
At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“You see, in American pop culture, beautiful dark women are invisible. (The other group just as invisible is Asian men. But at… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There's more to me than just the labels that society wants to place on me or any other Black woman, so I… — Judi Love Copy Share Image
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous.… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types,… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
I come from a proud, Black family, and generations of proud, Black women. So I've always grown up with that special armor,… — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
