Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
In the entertainment industry women are often judged. They judge bigger women, they judge black women, and older women too. We just… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
Black women are three times as likely to die giving birth or shortly after birth as white women. Black women in the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the… — Mamphela Ramphele Copy Share Image
My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned.… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I talk about a lot is how black women are so often referred to as feisty or sassy or aggressive or difficult… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
You can never have enough reinforcements, resources for black women to thrive in the world. The topic has been addressed a million… — Kelela Copy Share Image
If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and… — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
As much as you turn on the television and see our beautiful faces, you'd be amazed to see who is not behind… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I… — V. Bozeman Copy Share Image
As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I was nurtured by Ralph Farquhar and then, later, by Sara Finney-Johnson and Vida Spears, two black women. So, I actually was… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
I've long been a fan of OWN, I've watched shows on that network and just felt like they really love centering the… — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
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I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women.… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
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My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Honestly, I had a very realistic, probably pessimistic outlook at the beginning of my career post-graduation of drama school. In general, I… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it -… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
'Heroes' was great, but I was like the sorority sister, the friend. So often, we as black women, we are cast as… — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
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