My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to…

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

— Shola Lynch

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

— Carol Moseley Braun

Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because…

— Audre Lorde

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles…

— Amber Riley

There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we…

— Cornel West

“I am a black woman, A black queer woman.”

— Carlo Kui

Sometimes being a woman - a Black woman in the world - you kind of settle for less.

— Coco Gauff

I know how difficult it is to be not just a woman, but a black woman, and I know how much we get attacked…

— Angela Yee

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short…

— Tupac Shakur

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 cheat. She…

— Bernie Mac

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers in our…

— Audre Lorde

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger,…

— Wentworth Miller

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the…

— Anonymous

My father is black - was black. My mother is white.

— Stromae

My mother is white. My biological father is black. When my mother was 17, she got pregnant. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, which at…

— Israel Houghton