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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Even if you meet the perfect person, it ain’t gonna be at the perfect time. You’re married, they’re single. That’s right. You’re… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now,… — Brooklyn Sudano Copy Share Image
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not particular about makeup, but when I do wear it, I am partial to Fenty. That is what I own. I… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel,… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
I embrace my darker skin - always have, always will. In addition, I believe black women have always been trailblazers and trendsetters.… — Justine Skye Copy Share Image
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
People continue to put our league down. It's because we're women; that's the fight. And it's a majority of black women; that's… — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
“Black women and Black girls in STEM are phenomenal! They’re intelligent, fearless, resilient, and unstoppable. They exude confidence, strength, determination, and excellence.… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
“Now, when this first started the movement didn’t really appeal to black women because we couldn’t relate. So how did they get… — B. Love Copy Share Image
A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came… — Richard Dawson Copy Share Image
There were very few British black women on TV or in music when I was a teenager; when you're growing up, you… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
