That’s how it gonna be all your life,” Julia Cater told…

“Over the course of one’s life, Julia, there are actions that pave the way for everything else that comes after, good or bad. Simple…

— Wendy Webb

“This is my life. This is going to be my life. My life with Julia.”

— Kahlen Aymes

Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how to respond…

— Patrisse Cullors

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell

For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to…

— Laphonza Butler

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“There are entire books of family advice. The wisdom of generations in print. My dad only told me that you've got to pay attention.…

— Damon Thomas

“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always be intolerant…

— Maya Angelou

“You hold the collective story of all women in your body. The muscle memory of generations past. This is your legacy, but it is…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

— Maya Angelou

Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one…

— Anonymous

“As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.”

— Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

Black women's intersectional experiences of racism and sexism have been a central but forgotten dynamic in the unfolding of feminist and antiracist agendas.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

— Mike Tyson

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy